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Hermione

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Hermione may refer to:

People

  • Hermione (given name), a female given name
  • Hermione (mythology), only daughter of Menelaus and Helen in Greek mythology and original bearer of the name

Arts and literature

  • Cadmus et Hermione, an opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully
  • HERmione, a novel by American poet, Hilda "H.D." Doolittle
  • David Bowie (1969 album)#Letter to Hermione
  • Hermione (opera), Max Bruch 1872

Characters

Biology

  • Aurotalis hermione, a moth found in Zambia and part of the family Crambidae
  • Cycloponympha hermione, a moth known from Xinavane, Mozambique, and part of the family Lyonetiidae
  • Epiphryne (syn. Hermione), a genus of moth in the family Geometridae
  • Eurata hermione, a moth that is part of subfamily Arctiinae
  • Hipparchia hermione, a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae
  • Pleurotomella hermione, a species of sea snail of the family Raphitomidae
  • Tropidion hermione, a beetle species of the family Cerambycidae

Ships

  • French ship Hermione, twelve ships of the French Navy
    • French frigate Hermione (1779), a French frigate that carried La Fayette to join the American fight for independence in 1780
    • French frigate Hermione (2014), a replica of the 1779 original, built in France from 1996 to 2012, launched in 2014
  • HMS Hermione, four ships of the Royal Navy
  • Spanish frigate Hermione, an 18th-century frigate of the Spanish Navy

Places

  • Ermioni, a modern resort town in Greece on the site the ancient Hermione
  • Hermione (Argolis), a town of ancient Argolis

Other uses

  • 121 Hermione, an asteroid
  • Hermione (Tallulah, Louisiana), a Greek Revival building built in 1855 in Tallulah, Louisiana
  • Hermiones or Irminones, a group of early Germanic tribes
  • Hotspot Ecosystem Research and Man's Impact On European Seas (HERMIONE), an EU-funded deep-sea research project
  • Sony Ericsson P990, a mobile phone codenamed Hermione
  • USS Hawk (IX-14), formerly called Hermione
  • Hermionê Grammatikê (translation: ‘Hermione the literary lady' or 'Hermione the language teacher’), a portrait mummy dating from the first century AD

See also

  • Hermine (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles containing Hermione
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