Hermione
Role: wife of Pyrrhus · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 11
Hermione was the daughter of Helen and Menelaus. In Book 1, Chapter 11, she was married to Pyrrhus, but had no son by him. Book 3, Chapter 25, says that Pyrrhus sailed from Scyrus to marry her.
By Book 1, Chapter 33, Hermione remained with Orestes all her life and bore him a son. Their son was Tisamenus, who is named in Book 2, Chapter 18. Book 3, Chapter 1, identifies Orestes as Hermione’s husband.
Relationship record
Life events
- Hermione remained with Orestes and bore him a son.(Book 1 · Chapter 33)
- With: Orestes
- “though Hermione remained with him all her life and bore him a son.”
Book 1 · Chapter 11
- married with Pyrrhus (son of Achilles) “And he had no son by Hermione, but by Andromache he had Molossus and Pielus and the youngest Pergamus.”
Book 1 · Chapter 33
- parent: Helen “Hermione, the daughter of Helen”
- married with Pyrrhus (son of Achilles) “Pyrrhus the son of Achilles, the first husband of Hermione”
- with Orestes (Hermione remained with Orestes throughout her life and bore him a son.) “though Hermione remained with him all her life and bore him a son”
- with Orestes (Hermione remained with Orestes for life and bore him a son) “though Hermione remained with him all her life and bore him a son”
Book 2 · Chapter 18
- child: Tisamenus “Tisamenus, the son of Orestes by Hermione the daughter of Menelaus, had the kingdom”
- parent: Menelaus “Hermione the daughter of Menelaus”
Book 3 · Chapter 1
- parent: Menelaus “And his sons reigned after him, as well as his son-in-law Menelaus the son of Atreus, and Orestes the husband of Hermione the daughter of Menelaus.”
- married with Orestes “And his sons reigned after him, as well as his son-in-law Menelaus the son of Atreus, and Orestes the husband of Hermione the daughter of Menelaus.”
Book 3 · Chapter 25
- courtship with Pyrrhus (son of Achilles) “Pyrrhus, the son of Achilles, put in there with his fleet, when he sailed from Scyrus to marry Hermione.”
Book 3 · Chapter 26
- courtship with Pyrrhus (son of Achilles) “when he went off to Sparta to marry Hermione”
Book 10 · Chapter 16
- parent: Menelaus “Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus and wife of Orestes”
- married with Orestes “Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus and wife of Orestes (the son of Agamemnon)”
- married with Pyrrhus (son of Achilles) “and still earlier the wife of Neoptolemus the son of Achilles.”
- with Calamis (Calamis made a statue of Hermione.) “Here is a votive offering of the Lacedæmonians, a statue by Calamis of Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus and wife of Orestes”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.