Menelaus Menelaus In Greek mythology, Menelaus (; , "Menelaos", from μένος "vigor, rage, power" and λαός "people," "wrath of the people") was a king of Mycenaean (pre-Dorian) Sparta, the husband of Helen of Troy, and the son of Atreus and Aerope. According to the "Iliad", Menelaus was a central figure in the Trojan War, leading the Spartan contingent of the Greek army, under his elder brother Agamemnon, king of Mycenae. Prominent in both the "Iliad" and "Odyssey", Menelaus was also popular in Greek vase painting and Greek tragedy, the latter more as a hero of the Trojan War than as a
Chilon of Sparta king Anaxandridas II of Sparta and bore his son, king Cleomenes I. Chilon of Sparta said also the famous Ancient Greek proverb: "Το λακωνίζειν εστί φιλοσοφείν " in English " less is more" or " brevity is the soul of wit" or " brevity is a way of philosophy" which means that the best way of being philosopher is through brevity and describes the way of Spartans' way of thinking and attitude. Diogenes Laertius describes him as a writer of elegiac poems, and attributes many sayings to him: According to an inscription at the Bath of the Seven Sages in