Hermione (daughter of Menelaus)

Orestes and Hermione

Hermione ( Greek  Ἑρμιόνη ) is in Greek mythology the daughter of King Menelaus of Sparta and his wife Helena . Her mother Helena was the daughter of Zeus and Leda and was considered the most beautiful of all women.

Hermione was Orestes' fiancée . Her father promised her to Neoptolemus in the Trojan War , whom she had to marry. When Neoptolemus was killed at the hand of Orestes, she became Orestes' wife.

Hermione is occasionally mentioned in the Iliad and the Odyssey as well as in Andromaque by Racine .

Eponyms

The asteroid (121) Hermione is named after her.

literature

• Paul Weizsäcker : Hermione 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,2, Leipzig 1890, Col. 2433 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Hermione  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Velleius Paterculus . Historia Romana 1.1.3
2. ^ Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Volume 1 in the Google Book Search