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by **Hermione** » Thursday 6 February 2003 5:28:02pm

That Helen of Troy's daughter was also named Hermione? Just a random tidbit of the disorganized mind of Cassandra Hwang (My real name :razz:

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by **ElvenMist** » Thursday 6 February 2003 9:00:07pm

hmm... yet another mythological tie-in. did this daughter have anything specific about her? *goes to looks her up* ...

and btw, hermione means "woman loved by two men". i heard that somewhere...

by **RavenEye** » Thursday 6 February 2003 10:13:39pm

Hermione was alos a greek goddess I believe...

by **ElvenMist** » Thursday 6 February 2003 11:06:28pm

really? *looks sad* darn. i didn't know that... and i pride myself in my knowledge of greek mythology... *goes to read encyclopedia some more*

by **RavenEye** » Thursday 6 February 2003 11:34:10pm

I think it was greek...I could be wrong though.

by **Hermione** » Thursday 6 February 2003 11:35:03pm

I don't think she was a Greek Goddess . . .

Darn, I should know this. I'm in Greek Drama this year and we've just finished learning about all the gods and goddesses. Are you sure you aren't thinking of Hermes?

by **RavenEye** » Friday 7 February 2003 12:00:26am

She was some goddess I believe... I believe I read it somewhere.

bleh.

by **tuTucRazY** » Friday 7 February 2003 1:57:07am

we did greek mythology last yr.. i have a huge book of it.. hermione wasnt a goddess...

my book says... hermione was daughter of helen and menelaus, wife of Achille's son Neoptolemus and also of Orestes.. thats all tho..

by **Hermione** » Friday 7 February 2003 4:59:47pm

I knew it! I knew I wasn't crazy! Thank you, tutu

by **ElvenMist** » Friday 7 February 2003 5:53:06pm

ok. i found some more info to add onto what Crazy said...

from The Reader's Encyclopedia:
"Hermione. (1) In greek legend, the only daughter of Menelaus and Helen. She became the wife of Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, but Orestes assassinated Neoptolemus and married Hermione, who had already been bethrothed to him. She appears in Euripides' "Andromache" as the cruel persecuter of the herione.
(2) The virtuous and uncomplaining wife of Leontes, king of Sicilia, in Shakespeare's "Winter Tale"."

and also...
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
mentions hermione as the wife of Neop., but only a little, jsut enough to mark her existance.

---that's all i found with the limited research i did... we can't tell much about Hermione's personality or characteristics from either of these, since she was portrayed as almost opposite in the two works mentioned in the first one. Any comments, anyone?

by **RavenEye** » Friday 7 February 2003 10:39:53pm

lol. stupid me.

i knew it was something though...

by **ElvenMist** » Saturday 8 February 2003 6:52:58pm

hey, something is better than nothing!

by **RavenEye** » Sunday 9 February 2003 6:00:28am

heh heh...true true.

by **Scellanis** » Sunday 9 February 2003 10:48:40pm

hehehe problem sorted

According to BehindtheName.com, Hermione means:

Derived from the name of the Greek god HERMES. Hermes was the Greek god of speed and good luck. In Greek myth Hermione was the daughter of Menelaus and Helen. This was also the name of the wife of Leontes in Shakespeare's play 'The Winter's Tale'.

so hermione was not a greek goddess but her name was derived from a greek god called hermes.....

by **ElvenMist** » Sunday 9 February 2003 11:01:28pm

so, you were sort-of right, cory!

wasn't hermes cupid in roman mythology? or am I mixing them up?

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