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 literary parallels between Leucippe and Clitophon and the Christian Acts of Andrew, a roughly contemporary composition. The "Suda" also ascribes to the author a work on the sphere (in Greek ), a fragment of which, professing to be an introduction to the "Phaenomena" of Aratus, may still be extant (in Greek ). This, however, may be the work of another Achilles Tatius, who lived in the 3rd century. This work is referred to by Firmicus Maternus, who about 336 speaks of the "prudentissimus Achilles" in his "Matheseos libri" ("Math." iv. 10). The fragment was first published in 1567, then in