Character dossier
Menelaus
Husband of Helen and veteran of a long, storm-tossed homecoming of his own, Menelaus finally gives Telemachus the news he has traveled so far to find: Odysseus is alive.
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Role in the epic
King of Sparta
Atlas chapter
The Search for the Father
Where this figure enters the journey
Host at Sparta
Relationship to Odysseus
A fellow Greek leader at Troy who learned Odysseus' fate from the sea god Proteus, and is the one who finally confirms to Telemachus that his father still lives.
Where this figure enters the journey
In Menelaus' palace, Telemachus hears at last of Calypso's island — the news that turns the search for his father into a rescue.
Open the map locationSparta