Menelaus

In Greek mythology Menelaus, king of Sparta, was the son of Atreus and the husband of Helena of Paris carried off Helen and much of his treasure to Troy, Menelaus and his brother Agamemnon led the army of Greek princes that won the Trojan war and recovered Helen. On the return voyage, Menelaus lost most of his ships and was driven to Egypt. There, in one version of the story, he rescued Helen, who had been brought there by Hermes while the Greeks and Trojans were fighting over a phantom of her. Menelaus and Helen achieved immortality at their deaths. Menelaus appears in the Iliad and Odyssey, in the plays of Aeschylus and Euripides, and in many other literary works.