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Menelaos [r]: From Greek mythology, he was the brother of Agamemnon and husband of Helen of Troy and a Greek king who fought in the Trojan War, and was one of the elite fighters inside the Trojan horse. When prince Paris abducted his wife, this caused the ten-year conflict across the Aegean Sea between the Greek expeditionary force and the warriors of Troy. Source: Elizabeth Vandiver, Classics scholar, authority on Greek mythology and Greek tragedy, including the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Homer, and Virgil. This definition is based on her course Classical Mythology for The Teaching Company.