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MENELAUS , in See also:Greek See also:legend, son of See also:Atreus (or Pleisthenes), See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Sparta, See also:brother of See also:Agamemnon and See also:husband of See also:Helen. He was one of the Greeks who entered See also:Troy concealed in the wooden See also:horse (See also:Virgil, Aeneid, ii. 264) and recovered his wife at the See also:sack of the See also:city. On the voyage homewards his See also:fleet was scattered off Cape Malea by a See also:storm, which drove him to See also:Egypt. After eight years' wandering in the See also:east, he landed on. the See also:island of Pharos, where See also:Proteus revealed to him the means of appeasing the gods and securing his return. He reached Sparta on the See also:day on which See also:Orestes was holding the funeral feast over See also:Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra. After a See also:long and happy See also:life in See also:Lacedaemon, Menelaus, as the son-in-See also:law of See also:Zeus, did not See also:die but was translated to See also:Elysium (See also:Homer, Odyssey, iii. iv.). His See also:grave and that of Helen were shown at Therapnae, where he was worshipped as a See also:god (See also:Pausanias iii. 19, g). He was represented in See also:works of See also:art as carrying off the See also:body of the dead Patroclus or lifting up his See also:hand to slay Helen.
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