Hermione, the Overlooked Daughter of the Trojan War

 From The Greek Reporter:

The name Hermione first appears in Greek mythology in Homer’s epic The Odyssey. Homer identifies Hermione as the only daughter of Menelaus, the king of Sparta, and Helen of Troy. Helen, known as the most beautiful woman in the world, is often considered the reason for the Trojan War, as the Trojan prince Paris seduced her and persuaded her to leave her husband and daughter to sail away with him to Troy.

Nevertheless, in The Odyssey, Hermione is in fact mentioned only briefly, though her character gains greater significance in later works. Homer writes:

“…for the gods had never after granted Helen
a child to bring into the sunlit world
after the first, rose-lipped Hermione,
a girl like the pale-gold goddess Aphrodite.”

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