Menelaus to Crete and Egypt where they were becalmed, unable to sail away. They trapped Proteus, and forced him to reveal how to make the voyage home. After their homecoming, Menelaus and Helen’s marriage is strained; Menelaus continually revisits the losses of the Trojan War, particularly as he and Helen have no male heir. Menelaus is fond of Megapenthes and Nicostratus, his sons by other women. According to Euripides’ "Helen", Menelaus is reunited with Helen after death, on the Isle of the Blessed. Menelaus appears in Greek vase painting in the 6th to 4th centuries BC, such as: Menelaus’s reception of
1647 Menelaus 1647 Menelaus 1647 Menelaus ( ), provisional designation "", is a mid-sized Jupiter trojan from the Greek camp, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 23 June 1957 by American astronomer Seth Nicholson at the Palomar Observatory in California, and later named after the Spartan King Menelaus from Greek mythology. The dark asteroid has a rotation period of 17.7 hours. It is the principle body of the proposed Menelaus cluster, which encompasses several, mostly tentative Jovian asteroid families. "Menelaus" is a dark Jovian asteroid in a 1:1 orbital resonance with Jupiter. It is located in the leading Greek camp at