Lia’s Reviews > Menelaus in the Archaic Period: Not Quite the Best of the Achaeans > Status Update

[Odysseus delays for Elpenor vs Menelaus goes his own way] “the poet makes Menelaus a foil for Odysseus by joining similarities in action with contrasting details.”

Skimmed the text just for this — from the title, without knowing anything about the book itself, I thought it would characterize Menelaus as a foil, as a ¬hero, ¬best, ¬ideal.

Took me this long to reach it ... my confirmation bias is frustrated.