Hermione, in Greek mythology, was the only daughter of Menelaus, king of Sparta, and his wife, Helen of Troy. She was promised as wife to Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae. But Menelaus gave her to Neoptolemus, son of the great warrior Achilles. Neoptolemus was murdered at Delphi, probably by Orestes. Hermione then married Orestes. Hermione is also the virtuous heroine in The Winter’s Tale, a play by the great English dramatist William Shakespeare.
