After Menelaus married Helen, he succeeded his father-in-law, Tyndareus, as the king of Sparta. Menelaus and Helen had a daughter, Hermione, who married Achillesβ son, Neoptolemus, and later Agamemnonβs son, Orestes. In some accounts Helen and Menelaus also had two sons, Nicostratus and Pleisthenes. After Helen eloped with the Trojan prince Paris, Menelaus and other Greek kings fought the Trojan War to recover her. Menelaus intended to kill her after Troy fell but was overcome by her beauty and entreaties. They were reconciled and resumed their married life in Sparta.
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