Hermione (mythology)

Representation in a fresco of the winter triclin of the house of Marco Lucrecio Frontón (Pompeya) of a scene of tragedy Andromacaof Euripides: the death of Neoptolemus; Hermione is kneeling.

In Greek mythology, Hermione was the daughter of the kings Menelaus and Helen.

History

As a child, she was betrothed to her cousin Orestes, king of Mycenae, through her uncle Agamemnon. Despite this decision, Menelaus preferred that she marry Neoptolemus, son of Achilles. And she was like that, but she did not have children with him.

The princess blamed her barrenness on her husband's concubine, Andromache, who could have cast spells so Hermione wouldn't get pregnant.

Neoptolemus, as long as he knew if what his wife was saying was true or not, he went to the Oracle of Delphi, where he met Orestes, who should have been Hermione's husband.

In their fight to the death, it was Neoptolemus who died and Orestes finally married Hermione. Tisámeno was born from the marriage. His mother was his best teacher when it came to beauty, her powers and her intelligence.