# Menelaus — Agamemnon character guide

> Menelaus in Agamemnon by Aeschylus.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** The Atreidae strong, the Atreidae twain

**First appearance:** 0002-i

## Who they are

Brother of Agamemnon and king of Sparta, whose wife Helen's abduction sparked the Trojan War.

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