atreus's

Updated: May 5, 2025

And the one sang the fair daughter of Tyndarus, and the mighty son of Thetis, and Menelaus Atreus's son, but that other, not of wars, not of tears, but of Pan, would he sing, and of herdsmen would he chant, and so singing, he tended the herds.

of Phlossa near Smyrna Bion - Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose

But Helen was given to another man, to Menelaus, Atreus's son, of an evil house, that the knees of many might be loosened in death, and that there might be a song in the ears of men in after time. As he beheld the vision of young Helen, the Wanderer too grew young again.

Henry Rider Haggard - The World's Desire