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Tyndareus’ wife Leda was seduced by Zeus, who disguised himself as a swan. She laid two eggs, each producing two children; Castor and Pollux , and Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra . When Thyestes seized control in Mycenae , two exiled princes, Agamemnon and Menelaus came to Sparta , where they were received as guests and lived for a number of ...
Tyndareus was afraid to select a husband for his daughter, or send any of the suitors away, for fear of offending them and giving grounds for a quarrel. Odysseus was one of the suitors, but had brought no gifts because he believed he had little chance to win the contest.
Clytemnestra (/ ˌ k l aɪ t ə m ˈ n ɛ s t r ə /, [1] UK also / k l aɪ t ə m ˈ n iː s t r ə /; [2] Ancient Greek: Κλυταιμνήστρα, romanized: Klutaimnḗstra, pronounced [klytai̯mnɛ̌ːstraː]), in Greek mythology, was the wife of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, and the half-sister of Helen of Sparta.
Amphitryon (Αμφιτρύων), Theban general who rescued Thebes from the Teumessian fox; his wife was Alcmene, mother of Heracles; Antilochus (Ἀντίλοχος), Son of Nestor sacrificed himself to save his father in the Trojan War along with other deeds of valor; Bellerophon (Βελλεροφῶν), hero who slew the Chimera
Helen Mirren and husband Taylor Hackford are mourning the loss of his son, Rio Hackford, who died April 14 at age 51.
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.
Eight years after the proposal, then-41-year-old Lioy married then-36-year-old Ramirez in 1996 in a ceremony at San Quentin Prison. The pair were allowed to kiss and hold hands for their nuptials ...
The New Jersey rabbi serving a decadeslong sentence in a 1994 murder-for-hire plot targeting his wife has died. Fred Neulander, 82, was pronounced dead shortly after 6 p.m. Wednesday at a hospital ...