ABSTRACT
Menelaus was driven out to sea in attempting to double Cape Malea, a part of his fleet was carried to Crete and the rest, with Menelaus himself, was driven to Egypt. While there, Menelaus visited the countries that surround the eastern head of the Mediterranean: he tells Telemachus that he wandered to Cyprus, Phoenicia, Ethiopia, the land of the Erembi and Libya. Exactly what significance can be attached to the mention of Ethiopia it is impossible to say, but seeing that nothing is said about the Sahara, the Nile or the West African coast, there is no reason to suppose that Menelaus anticipated n any way the explorations of later times.
