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
The Fall of the King the Count's Feud in 1536, and ends at Mikkel's death. "The Fall of the King" was named best Danish novel of the 20th century by the newspapers Politiken and Berlingske Tidende, independently of each other, in 1999 and was in 2006 included in the controversial Culture Canon published by the Ministry for Culture. On this list of significant Danish works of art, "The Fall of the King" was ranked alongside works by Hans Christian Andersen, Søren Kierkegaard, Karen Blixen and others. The Fall of the King The Fall of the King () is a novel by Danish author Johannes V.