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Published: 2019-02-17 18:58:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 1542; Favourites: 12; Downloads: 0
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So here we have Hermione, daughter of Helen and Menelaus and as far as I can tell is the only child they had together. I have however seen some claims that Helen had a son with Paris so it's possible had two children but by different fathers. Hermione is a character that makes me ask a few questions and think a bit. Unlike most of the children who were left behind in Greece while their fathers went off to war, Hermione didn't have any parents around for ten years of her life, likely from a very young age and into her teen years. As far as Hermione is concerned, she really doesn't know her mother or father. So who the hell was raising her? Any uncles she had were either dead (Castor and Pollux) or were in Troy with her father (Agamemnon). We can assume she didn't go to live with either of her aunts either as it likely would have been mentioned. So you have a princess who basically grew up alone in a palace with no family for ten years. I kinda feel sorry for her.And then on the right we have Chrysothemis, who is actually a daughter of Clytemnestra who I accidentally neglected to include in my original Daughters of Clytemnestra post, which I will have linked here. Apparently, unlike Elektra, Chrysothemis felt no aggression towards their mother even after the murder of their father, which makes me wonder how young Chrysothemis actually was when Agamemnon sailed off to war. When you really look at how long the Trojan War was and just how many children were left behind to wait for their fathers to return, you really have to wonder how strained or uncomfortable those child-parent dynamics were especially if the children were particularly young or maybe even not born yet at the start of the war.
Daughters of Clytemnestra
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Were Hermione's grandparents still alive? If so, maybe they raised her. In the comic Age of Bronze by Eric Shanower, Menelaus decides to send Hermione to Clytemnestra and her daughters, after Iphigenia is sacrificed, to comfort Clytemnestra. But I suppose that was Shanower's own idea.
I agree that the relationship between Hermione and her parents must have been quite strained and awkward...
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At the very least Tyndareus must have been alive for some of her life, as according to some he betrothed her to Orestes at a young age, which then became a cause for conflict as Menelaus promised her to Neoptolemus. So at the very least Tyndareus might have been some sort of guardian to Hermione. Perhaps she was raised by Clytemnestra, but I just feel like that might have been asking for some trouble given the scandalous stuff Clytemnestra was doing at the time. But I confess that that is just my interpretation.
Unfortunately if there's one thing I notice in Greek myth, it's that all too often grandparents just kinda cease to actually do anything once their old enough to actually have grandchildren. They're just sorta in this nebulous place where as a reader it's often quite difficult to discern whether they are alive or dead unless explicitly mentioned. The only exception to this I can think of off the top of my head would be Laertes in the Odyssey, but even then he doesn't even appear until the very end and overall just lacks a presence at all up to that point.
Oh yeah. Can you imagine those family dinners after the war? I'd just wanna stay away from both of them lest they start making jabs at each other.
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