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Hermione
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Wikidata facts
- Given name
- Hermione
- Gender
- female
- Spouse
- Neoptolemus
- Father
- Menelaus
- Mother
- Helen of Troy
- Image
- Pompeii - Casa di Marco Lucrezio Frontone - Winter Triclinium.jpg
- Residence
- Sparta
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- Commons category
- Hermione
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
- name in native language
- Ἑρμιόνη
- worshipped by
- Greek mythology
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Encyclopedic overview
Scene from the tragedy Andromache by Euripides: Orestes kills Neoptolemus at the altar of Apollo in Delphi. Despairing Hermione, wife of Neoptolemus but previously promised to Orestes, kneels at the foot of the altar. Roman fresco in Pompeii.
In Greek mythology, Hermione (/hɜːrˈmaɪ.əni/; Ancient Greek: Ἑρμιόνη, romanized: Hermiónē [hermi.ónɛː]) was the daughter of Menelaus, king of Sparta, and his wife, Helen of Troy. Prior to the Trojan War, Hermione had been betrothed by Tyndareus, her grandfather, to her cousin Orestes, son of her uncle, Agamemnon. According to Apollodorus, she was nine years old when her mother eloped with Paris, son of the Trojan king Priam.
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