Hermione (mythology) Hermione (mythology) In Greek mythology, Hermione (; ) was the only child 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 Orestes, son of her father's brother, Agamemnon; she was just nine years old when Paris, son of the Trojan king Priam, arrived to abduct her mother, Helen. During the war, Menelaus promised her to Achilles' son, Neoptolemus. and after the war ended, he sent Hermione away to the city of Phthia (the home of Peleus and Achilles), where Neoptolemus was staying. The two
Achilles Tatius the "Uranologion" of the Jesuit scholar Denis Pétau, with a Latin translation in 1630. The same source also mentions a work of Achilles Tatius on etymology, and another entitled "Miscellaneous Histories". Achilles Tatius' surviving work: Other ancient Greek novelists: Achilles Tatius Achilles Tatius (Greek: Ἀχιλλεὺς Τάτιος) of Alexandria was a Roman era Greek writer of the 2nd century whose fame is attached to his only surviving work, the ancient Greek novel or romance "The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon". Eustathius of Thessalonica (in his commentary on Homer's "Odyssey" 14.350), the "Suda", Photius, in his "Bibliotheca" (cod. 87), and the manuscript