Ruins of the Menelaus
To the southeast of Sparta are the Ruins of the Menelaus, or Menelaus sanctuary, on the left side of the Eurotas River.
The ruins of the sanctuary of Menelaus and Helena in the massif of Mount Taygetus.
Menelaus was King of Sparta, main protagonist in the war of Troy, husband of Helen, who was abducted by the Trojan Prince Paris. Helena was said to be the most beautiful woman of Greece and the world. One of the many versions says that King Menelaus and his wife Helena are buried there in the massif of Mount Taygetus. Another version says that Helena is buried on the island of the rhodians and there is also a mausoleum, or was divinizada and went to live in the Champs-Elysées.
In 1997 the British archaeologists discovered votive offerings (offerings that the gentiles did to their gods and put them in shrines or places of worship) at the top of the mountain, claiming that there was a place of worship from the Mycenaean era, they also found an aryballos or arrive it bronze (is a Greek vessel broad-based and thin neck)(, very used to conserve oils perfumed body, also used the athletes it to preserve their oil), from the archaic period with the inscription “to Helena of Menelaus”. They also found another bronze piece dedicated to Helena.
In the sanctuary of Digg so there are many mythological characters of the Trojan war.
In the bronze age and the archaic period were destroyed many fortresses and palaces with all its surroundings, including one found under the ruins of the Menelaus of classical times.
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