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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,
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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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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