Menelaus

Menelaus was the son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Aerope, and brother to Agamemnon. After Atreus' brother Thyestes gained the throne and had Atreus murdered, Menelaus and Agamemnon fled into exile. Later, with the help of King Tyndareus of Sparta, they drove Thyestes away, and Agamemnon took the throne for himself, while Menalaus returned to Sparta to marry Tyndareus' beautiful daughter, Helen. On Tyndareus' death, Menelaus became king of Sparta and together Menelaus and Helen had a daughter, Hermione. When the Trojan prince Paris abducted Helen, Menelaus and Agamemnon led the Greek forces in the ten-year Trojan War to retrieve her. After the War, he returned with Helen to Sparta, unable to punish her for her unfaithfulness, but full of remorse over the human cost of the Trojan War.