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Hermione

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Hermione ♀ Name borne in classical mythology by a daughter of Helen and Menelaus, who grew up to marry her cousin Orestes. It is evidently a derivative of Hermes, name of the messenger god, but the formation is not clear. The name was used by Shakespeare for one of the main characters in A Winter's Tale (1610), and is still in occasional use.

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Hermione

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Hermione , in Greek mythology, the only daughter of Helen and Menelaus . When Helen eloped with Paris, Hermione was abandoned to the care of Clytemnestra. She later married Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles. In Euripides' Andromache, she is carried off by Orestes who marries her after he has contrived the murder of Neoptolemus at Delphi.

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Hermione

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

Hermione,
1. daughter of Menelaus and Helen, the wife first of Neoptolemus, then of Orestes;

2. in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, the wife of Leontes.

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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Hermione." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Hermione." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Hermione.html

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Hermione

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

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