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This book will be necessary reading for anyone engaging with Agamemnon's brother, and I have no doubt that it will stimulate wider interest in Helen's husband too. * James Lloyd-Jones, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * Stelow has produced an indispensable and encyclopaedic work on the figure of Menelaus ... This book will be necessary reading - James Lloyd-Jones, Bryn Mawr Classical Review The reader comes away from this volume with the impression hat Menelaus was more significant and more interesting than normally assumed. * G. D. Bird, CHOICE * A well-researched and clearly written book ... a range of theories and evidence presented in an eminently useful manner. * Joel P. Christensen, The Classical Review * By rescuing Menelaus from relative obscurity, Stelow has given the world a truly revelatory insight into the works of Homer, which is quite a task considering the plethora of books written about it. With a thorough 30-page bibliography and extensive footnotes, this is a landmark study which will surely be appreciated by the only Achaean hero in Homer's poems who is still alive somewhere. * Cliff Cunningham, Sun News Tucson *

The reader comes away from this volume with the impression that Menelaus was more significant and more interesting than normally assumed. * G. D. Bird, CHOICE * A well-researched and clearly written book ... a range of theories and evidence presented in an eminently useful manner. * Joel P. Christensen, The Classical Review * By rescuing Menelaus from relative obscurity, Stelow has given the world a truly revelatory insight into the works of Homer, which is quite a task considering the plethora of books written about it. With a thorough 30-page bibliography and extensive footnotes, this is a landmark study which will surely be appreciated by the only Achaean hero in Homer's poems who is still alive somewhere. * Cliff Cunningham, Sun News Tucson *

"...an engaging read with a well-researched and clearly written book. * JOEL P. CHRISTENSEN, Brandeis University, THE CLASSICAL REVIEW * In short, this essential volume (with 19 black-and-white illustrations, full footnotes, a good bibliography and an index locorum and a general index) makes manifest not only Menelaus' well-developed character but the sheer sophistication of the art and poetry of Archaic Greece. * David Stuttard, Classics for all * This book will be necessary reading for anyone engaging with Agamemnon's brother, and I have no doubt that it will stimulate wider interest in Helen's husband too. * James Lloyd-Jones, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * ""Stelow has produced an indispensable and encyclopaedic work on the figure of Menelaus ... This book will be necessary reading"" — James Lloyd-Jones, Bryn Mawr Classical Review The reader comes away from this volume with the impression hat Menelaus was more significant and more interesting than normally assumed. * G. D. Bird, CHOICE * A well-researched and clearly written book ... a range of theories and evidence presented in an eminently useful manner. * Joel P. Christensen, The Classical Review * By rescuing Menelaus from relative obscurity, Stelow has given the world a truly revelatory insight into the works of Homer, which is quite a task considering the plethora of books written about it. With a thorough 30-page bibliography and extensive footnotes, this is a landmark study which will surely be appreciated by the only Achaean hero in Homer's poems who is still alive somewhere. * Cliff Cunningham, Sun News Tucson *"

By rescuing Menelaus from relative obscurity, Stelow has given the world a truly revelatory insight into the works of Homer, which is quite a task considering the plethora of books written about it. With a thorough 30-page bibliography and extensive footnotes, this is a landmark study which will surely be appreciated by the only Achaean hero in Homer's poems who is still alive somewhere. * Cliff Cunningham, Sun News Tucson *

...an engaging read with a well-researched and clearly written book. * JOEL P. CHRISTENSEN, Brandeis University, THE CLASSICAL REVIEW * In short, this essential volume (with 19 black-and-white illustrations, full footnotes, a good bibliography and an index locorum and a general index) makes manifest not only Menelaus' well-developed character but the sheer sophistication of the art and poetry of Archaic Greece. * David Stuttard, Classics for all * This book will be necessary reading for anyone engaging with Agamemnon's brother, and I have no doubt that it will stimulate wider interest in Helen's husband too. * James Lloyd-Jones, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * Stelow has produced an indispensable and encyclopaedic work on the figure of Menelaus ... This book will be necessary reading - James Lloyd-Jones, Bryn Mawr Classical Review The reader comes away from this volume with the impression hat Menelaus was more significant and more interesting than normally assumed. * G. D. Bird, CHOICE * A well-researched and clearly written book ... a range of theories and evidence presented in an eminently useful manner. * Joel P. Christensen, The Classical Review * By rescuing Menelaus from relative obscurity, Stelow has given the world a truly revelatory insight into the works of Homer, which is quite a task considering the plethora of books written about it. With a thorough 30-page bibliography and extensive footnotes, this is a landmark study which will surely be appreciated by the only Achaean hero in Homer's poems who is still alive somewhere. * Cliff Cunningham, Sun News Tucson *

"...an engaging read with a well-researched and clearly written book. * JOEL P. CHRISTENSEN, Brandeis University, THE CLASSICAL REVIEW * In short, this essential volume (with 19 black-and-white illustrations, full footnotes, a good bibliography and an index locorum and a general index) makes manifest not only Menelaus' well-developed character but the sheer sophistication of the art and poetry of Archaic Greece. * David Stuttard, Classics for all * This book will be necessary reading for anyone engaging with Agamemnon's brother, and I have no doubt that it will stimulate wider interest in Helen's husband too. * James Lloyd-Jones, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * ""Stelow has produced an indispensable and encyclopaedic work on the figure of Menelaus ... This book will be necessary reading"" -- James Lloyd-Jones, Bryn Mawr Classical Review The reader comes away from this volume with the impression hat Menelaus was more significant and more interesting than normally assumed. * G. D. Bird, CHOICE * A well-researched and clearly written book ... a range of theories and evidence presented in an eminently useful manner. * Joel P. Christensen, The Classical Review * By rescuing Menelaus from relative obscurity, Stelow has given the world a truly revelatory insight into the works of Homer, which is quite a task considering the plethora of books written about it. With a thorough 30-page bibliography and extensive footnotes, this is a landmark study which will surely be appreciated by the only Achaean hero in Homer's poems who is still alive somewhere. * Cliff Cunningham, Sun News Tucson *"

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Anna R. Stelow is a researcher in ancient Greek literature at the University of Virginia. Her interests include Homer and archaic Greek poetry and heroic narrative in archaic Greek art.

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