Students
Teachers & SchoolsStudents
Teachers & Schools
Menelaus Sightings
Sightings
Dec 20, 2019 - Dec 20, 2019
The Iliad by Homer
Menelaus and Agamemnon kick some Trojan butt in this definitive poem about the Trojan War.
Dec 20, 2019 - Dec 20, 2019
The Odyssey by Homer
Odysseus’ son Telemachus pops in on Helen and Menelaus in Sparta in this sequel to the Iliad.
Dec 20, 2019 - Dec 20, 2019
Ajax by Sophocles
Menelaus orders that Ajax’s body not be buried in this tragedy of Trojan War.
Dec 20, 2019 - Dec 20, 2019
Andromache by Euripides
Years after the Trojan War, Menelaus and his daughter Hermione terrorize their Trojan captive, Andromache, in this tragedy.
Dec 20, 2019
Helen by Euripides
In this crazy tragedy, Menelaus discovers that the Helen who Paris took to Troy was just a phantom and that his real wife was spirited away to Egypt by the gods. (Say what?)
Dec 20, 2019
Orestes by Euripides
Orestes and Electra are sentenced to death by Menelaus for killing Clytemnestra in this tragedy. (We wonder what Agamemnon would think about that.)
Dec 20, 2019
The Trojan Women by Euripides
Helen uses her feminine wiles to convince her husband not to execute her in this tragedy. (Oh, Menelaus...you really fell for that?)
Dec 20, 2019 - Dec 20, 2019
Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides
In this tragedy, Menelaus convinces Agamemnon to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia so that the Greek armies can sail to Troy. Talk about a major favor.
Dec 20, 0299 - Dec 20, 0399
The Fall of Troy by Quintus Smyrnaeus
In this epic poem, Agamemnon, Menelaus, and the rest of the Greeks totally destroy Troy.
Dec 20, 2019
Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
Agamemnon and Menelaus are both minor characters in this “problem” play about love gone wrong in the Trojan War.
Dec 20, 2019
Troy
This Hollywood blockbuster remixes Greek mythology by having Menelaus die at the hands of Hector during the Trojan War.
Dec 20, 2019
Iphigenia 2.0 by Charles Mee
Menelaus pops up in this totally postmodern remix of Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis. (Be prepared for craziness.)
Dec 20, 2019
Marvel Illustrated: The Iliad
Check out Menelaus in Marvel Comics’ awesome adaption of Homer’s Iliad.
Dec 20, 2019
The Trojan War
Marvel kicks out yet another digital comic about the Trojan War—Menelaus included.
Dec 20, 2019
These Seven Sicknesses by Sean Graney
Menelaus acts like Agamemnon’s clueless sidekick in this modernized marathon of all of Sophocles’ extant plays.