What Happened to Menelaus

In Book 4, while the Greeks and Trojans squabble over the duel’s winner, Athena inspires the Trojan Pandarus to shoot Menelaus with his bow and arrow. However, Athena never intended for Menelaus to die and she protects him from the arrow of Pandarus. Menelaus is wounded in the abdomen, and the fighting resumes.

What happened to Menelaus Troy?

After the Greeks defeated Troy, Menelaus returned to Sparta with Helen. … When Menelaus died, he became immortal because he had married a daughter of Zeus. He joined Helen in Elysium, a place of ideal happiness in the afterlife. See also Agamemnon; Greek Mythology; Helen Of Troy; Paris; Trojan War.

What happened to Menelaus and Helen after the Trojan War?

Menelaus and Helen then returned to Sparta, where they lived happily until their deaths. … The Helen carried on to Troy was thus a phantom, and the real one was recovered by her husband from Egypt after the war. This version of the story was used by Euripides in his play Helen.