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In Greek antiquity, Hermione (/ h ɜːr ˈ m aɪ. ə n i /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ἑρμιόνη [hermi.ónɛː]) was the daughter of Menelaus, king of Sparta, and his wife, Helen of Troy. [2] Prior to the Trojan War, Hermione had been betrothed by Tyndareus, her grandfather, [3] to her cousin Orestes, son of her uncle, Agamemnon.
Helen and Menelaus had a daughter, Hermione. Hesiod says she was "a child unlooked for". [22] Different sources say she was also the mother of one or more sons, ...
She accompanies Helen to Troy in the place of Helen's daughter Hermione and becomes the sole protector of Helen's infant son, Pleisthenes. Menelaus - The king of Sparta and brother to King Agamemnon, who married Helen's sister Clytemnestra. He loves his children dearly and cares for Anaxandra as his own, which further increases Helen's ...
Hermione most commonly refers to: Hermione (given name), a female given name; Hermione (mythology), only daughter of Menelaus and Helen in Greek mythology and original bearer of the name; Hermione Granger, a character in Harry Potter; Hermione may also refer to:
The mythographer Apollodorus says that "Menelaus had by Helen a daughter Hermione and, according to some (κατά τινας), a son Nicostratus", while a scholia on Sophocles' Electra quotes Hesiod as saying "She [Helen] bore Hermione to spear-famed Menelaus, and last of all she bore Nicostratus, scion of Ares". [7]
Neoptolemus weds Hermione, daughter of Menelaus and Helen. Even though Andromache is still devoted to her dead husband Hector, Hermione is deeply jealous and plots her revenge. Fearing for her life and the life of her child, Andromache hides the child and seeks refuge in the temple of Thetis (who was the mother of Achilles).
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Menelaus was a descendant of Pelops son of Tantalus. [3] He was the younger brother of Agamemnon, and the husband of Helen of Troy.According to the usual version of the story, followed by the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Agamemnon and Menelaus were the sons of Atreus, king of Mycenae, and Aerope, daughter of the Cretan king Catreus. [4]