Hermione
mythological figure · 4 works · 7 mentions · 22 anchored passages
my mistress · Spartan Hermione · daughter of Menelaus · my child · our daughter · queen of this palace · the girl · thy daughter
in the texts
Orestes
Daughter of Helen and Menelaus, raised by Clytemnestra, sent to pour libations at Clytemnestra's tomb.
do not kill Hermione.
Then why not send your daughter Hermione?
Take these libations and these tresses of mine in your hands, and go pour round Clytemnestra’s tomb a mingled cup of honey, milk, and frothing wine;
Andromache
Spartan wife of Neoptolemus, daughter of Menelaus and Helen, jealous of Andromache and instigator of the plot against her and Molossus.
Hermione:
Hermione:
Hermione:
Helen
Daughter of Helen and Menelaos, left behind in Sparta, unmarried and grieving her mother's infamous reputation.
Helen:
Is our daughter Hermione alive?
Iphigenia in Aulis
The daughter of Menelaus and Helen, named by Clytemnestra as the one who, by her logic, should have been sacrificed instead of Iphigenia.
or Menelaus, as it was his concern, should have slain Hermione for her mother.