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Einstein observes that the Menelaus theorem is symmetric with respect to the vertices of the triangle.
Athena, disguised like a Trojan, finds the archer Pandarus to shoot an arrow at Menelaus.
It then follows from the Menelaus theorem, that every three such points are collinear provided all or two of the bisectors are external.
Menelaus recounts his own journey and tells how he was becalmed for twenty days.
So, Aphrodite got the apple, and Paris got off with Helen, who unfortunately happened to be married to Menelaus, King of Sparta.
After twenty years of the Trojan War, Helen was retaken by Menelaus and gave birth to a daughter named Hermione.
Menelaus would have defeated Paris in single combat, but Aphrodite rescued him, and the war continued.
Refusing to hear the oracle about the fall of Troy, Priam nominated Paris ambassador to the King of Sparta Menelaus.
Agamemnon and Menelaus are on their way to Troy to bring back Menelaus' wife Helen, who has been abducted.
Menelaus mobilized the Greek princes to free his wife, and chose Agamemnon to lead the army.
Achilles, Hector, Menelaus, Ajax, Odysseus, and the others acquire a kind of heroic glow that even Greek tragedy later found hard to emulate.
But when Spartan Princess Helen cuckolds Menelaus with Trojan Prince Paris, warmongering Agamemnon uses it as an excuse for launching an all out war on Troy.
Aided by some divine meddling, Paris performs the consummate indignity against his host Menelaus by absconding with his wife.
Menelaus prevails upon Agamemnon, his brother, to declare war on Troy, which has always stood just outside the grasp of the power-hungry Greek ruler.
Agamemnon's acquiescence in this slaughter involves much indecision, even in his cuckolded brother Menelaus.
Menelaus might have taken the sensible view that he was lucky to be deprived of such a flirtatious wife as Helen: then there would have been no launching of a thousand ships, no Trojan war, no Iliad, no Odyssey.
Both Helen and Menelaus also say that they returned to Sparta after a long voyage by way of Egypt.
Even in these traditions, remnants of male lunar deities, like Menelaus, remain.
After the fall of Troy, Menelaus recovered Helen and brought her home.
The pair then escape from the Egyptian king Theoclymenus, who wants to marry Helen, by fooling him into believing that Menelaus is a shipwrecked mariner who escaped death when Menelaus died.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Euphorbus, attempting to despoil Patroclus of his armour, is slain by Menelaus.
For Alexander and Mars-beloved Menelaus are about to fight with long spears for the woman.
Often did Mars-beloved Menelaus entertain him in our palace, when he would come from Crete.
Machaon was surgeon to Menelaus and Podalarius was the pioneer of phlebotomy.
There he was kindly received by Menelaus, the king, and his wife, Fair Helen.
Being rebuked by Hector, he consents to engage Menelaus, and a treaty is arranged.
This dowery he regards as the equivalent of, and as fatal to him as the treasures of the Argive Helen were to Menelaus.
For it is Proteus who sends Menelaus back to the Gods whom he has neglected and offended.
Minerva then persuades Pandarus to break the truce by aiming an arrow at Menelaus.
The son of Jason freighted them with ten thousand measures of wine, which he sent specially to the sons of Atreus, Agamemnon and Menelaus.
So the neighbours and kinsmen of Menelaus were feasting and making merry in his house.
Thus from Menelaus the youth Telemachus got tiding of his father.
Was Menelaus away from Achaean Argos, voyaging elsewhither among mankind, that Aegisthus took heart and killed Agamemnon?
Such is the irrational element in the introduction of Aegeus by Euripides and the badness of Menelaus in the Orestes.
Being part of Laconia, it was subject in the Trojan times to Menelaus.
Thus Menelaus rejoiced, having beheld with his eyes godlike Alexander.
As for your own end, Menelaus, you shall not die in Argos, but the gods will take you to the Elysian plain, which is at the ends of the world.
As a cow stands lowing over her first calf, even so did yellow-haired Menelaus bestride Patroclus.
The squires of Idomeneus spoiled him of his armour, while Menelaus, son of Atreus, killed Scamandrius the son of Strophius, a mighty huntsman and keen lover of the chase.
Ulysses once came here as envoy about yourself, and Menelaus with him.
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