Menelaus

Family: Greeks · Role: king · First appears: Troilus and Cressida · Act IV, Scene I

Life events

• Paris returns home wounded after Menelaus injures him in battle.(Troilus and Cressida · Act I, Scene I)
  • With: Paris
  • “That Paris is returned home, and hurt.”

Troilus and Cressida · Act IV, Scene I

• rivals with Paris “Who in your thoughts deserves fair Helen best, Myself, or Menelaus?”

Troilus and Cressida · Act IV, Scene V

• siblings with Agamemnon “Let me confirm my princely brother’s greeting.”
• with Helen (Former spouses) “Your quondam wife swears still by Venus’ glove. She’s well, but bade me not commend her to you.”

Troilus and Cressida · Act V, Scene I

• siblings with Agamemnon “Here’s Agamemnon, an honest fellow enough, and one that loves quails, but he has not so much brain as ear-wax; and the goodly transformation of Jupiter there, his brother, the bull, the primitive statue and oblique memorial of cuckolds, a thrifty shoeing-horn in a chain at his brother’s leg, to what form but that he is, should wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit, turn him to? To an ass, were nothing: he is both ass and ox. To an ox, were nothing: he is both ox and ass. To be a dog, a mule, a cat, a fitchook, a toad, a lizard, an owl, a puttock, or a herring without a roe, I would not care; but to be Menelaus, I would conspire against destiny.”

Troilus and Cressida · Act V, Scene VII

• enemies with Paris “Enter Menelaus and Paris, fighting; then Thersites.”

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