Hermione · Atlas

in the texts

OrestesClassical · Greek

Daughter of Helen and Menelaus, raised by Clytemnestra, sent to pour libations at Clytemnestra's tomb.

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;

orestes ¶

for Hermione, the child she left at home when she sailed for Troy, the maid whom Menelaus brought from Sparta and entrusted to my mother’s keeping, is still a cause of joy to her and a reason to forget her sorrows.

orestes ¶

do not kill Hermione.

orestes ¶

AndromacheClassical · Greek

Spartan wife of Neoptolemus, daughter of Menelaus and Helen, jealous of Andromache and instigator of the plot against her and Molossus.

but since my lord hath wedded that Spartan Hermione in scorn of his bondmaid’s charms, I am tormented by her most cruelly;

andromache ¶

father and daughter, mother and son, sister and brother mate together;

andromache ¶

Hermione:

andromache ¶

HelenClassical · Greek

Daughter of Helen and Menelaos, left behind in Sparta, unmarried and grieving her mother's infamous reputation.

Is our daughter Hermione alive?

helen ¶

Helen:

helen ¶

Iphigenia in AulisClassical · Greek

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.

iphigenia in aulis ¶