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name: Menelaus the Historian
name_greek: Μενέλαος ὁ ἱστορικός
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canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/authors/menelaus-the-historian-njs"
period: Hellenistic
dialect: Koine (frg)
works_count: 1
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
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# Menelaus the Historian

*Μενέλαος ὁ ἱστορικός*

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Menelaus the Historian was a Hellenistic writer of the 1st century BCE. His surviving historical works are fragmentary. Free to download from the Greek archive.

## Works

- [Fragments on Italian Myths](https://eulogikon.org/works/menelaus-italian-myths-njs-aa) — *Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Ἰταλικῶν Μύθων* · `njs-aa`

## License and provenance

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