Abstract
If one were to have asked an Athenian in the sixth or fifth century BC what the most common image of Menelaos would be, the unequivocal answer would have been his reunion with Helen during the fall of Troy. Indeed, the number of images of Menelaos with Helen dwarfs all other Attic representations of the hero, and one might fairly characterize him as a one-deed hero, unlike Achilles or Herakles.¹ LIMC lists fourteen Attic black-figure and red-figure representations of Menelaos without Helen, including those regarded as uncertain. In contrast, there are 139 vases listed with Menelaos and Helen, most in