Dionysus was angry and punished Athens with a plague, inflicting insanity on all the unmarried women, who all hanged themselves like Erigone did.

Orestes is said to have a son, Penthilus, with his half-sister Erigone, though stories differ as to whether this was by rape or if they married.

Penthilus ( Πένθιλος ) was the illegitimate son of half-siblings Orestes and Erigone.

The myths do not mention Hermione after that, though it is said that Orestes later married his half-sister Erigone, daughter of Clytemnestra and Aigisthus, who was Orestes's second cousin.

The only witness to this crime was Erigone ’ s little dog, Maera, who ran home howling and pulled Erigone to the spot where her father had been buriedand scratched at the soil.

Realizing that her father was dead, Erigone fell into a deep depression and hung herself from a branch of the pine tree.

They even remembered the local heroes of the myth by putting them in the sky as constellations: Ikarios was the star Arcturus in the consellation Bootes, Erigone was Virgo, and Maera was the Lesser Dog Star, Procyon.

His daughter, Erigone, and her dog, Maera, found his body.

** Erigone ( daughter of Icarius )

** Erigone ( daughter of Aegisthus )

His daughter Erigone informed by a dream finds her dead father and hangs herself, but is then made into a constellation by Zeus.

The retinue is sometimes shown being brought before a seated recipient: the tragic human welcomer of the gift of wine, Ikarios or Semachos, and his daughter, Erigone.

Erigone ( daughter of Icarius ) | Erigone and Dionysus | Bacchus in Act 5 of Jean-Joseph Mouret's Le triomphe des sens

In this green valley thousands of years ago, the local leader Icarius of Athens and his lovely daughter Erigone welcomed a young stranger into their home, offering him fresh goat ’ s milk as well as food and shelter.

Clytemnestra and Aegisthus had three children: Aletes, Erigone, and Helen, who died as an infant.

According to some sources, Orestes fathered Penthilus by his half-sister, Erigone.

However, other stories say that when Aletes and Erigone came of age and became rulers at Mycenae, Orestes returned with an army then killed his half-brother and raped his half-sister, who gave birth to a son, Penthilus.

In this genre he produced a comedy long regarded as a masterpiece, Les Visionnaires ( 1637 ); a prose-tragedy, Erigone ( 1638 ); and Scipion ( 1639 ), a tragedy in verse.

Erigone hanged herself over her father's grave.

The plague did not cease until the Athenians introduced honorific rites for Icarius and Erigone.

In other myths Ariadne hanged herself from a tree, like Erigone and the hanging Artemis, a Mesopotamian theme.

* 163 Erigone, an asteroid.

He had two sisters: Erigone and Helen.

Some say Erigone hanged herself.

Erigone is said to have hanged herself.

Ground track of the March 20, 2014 occultation of Regulus by 163 Erigone.

Regulus is expected to be occulted by the asteroid 163 Erigone on March 20, 2014.

Common genera include Neriene, Lepthyphantes, Erigone, Eperigone, Bathyphantes, Troglohyphantes, the monotypic genus Tennesseellum and many others.

The most well-known genus is Erigone.

163 Erigone is a dark-coloured, fairly big Main belt asteroid, the namesake of the Erigone family of asteroids.

Ground track of the March 20, 2014 occultation of Regulus by 163 Erigone.

On March 20, 2014, Erigone is expected to occult the first-magnitude star Regulus.

Donna, his young wife, the girl who was both daughter and wife to him.

But his prime interest, apart from music, he insisted seriously, was his family -- his wife, daughter and son.

Bertha, blue-eyed like Mamma, was from the start her mother's daughter, destined for her mother's role in life.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

The daughter, Lilly, was a very good friend of mine and I always had hopes that someday she and Meltzer would find each other.

Lady Greville, daughter of the late Lord Chancellor Bromley and niece of Sir John Fortescue, was offered twenty pounds by the townsmen to make peace ; ;

If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.

She was the daughter and sole heiress of either a cattle baron or an oil millionaire and, having arrived in New York with a big bank roll, became a dabbler in various fields.

A freshman girl's father not too long ago called a dean at Brooklyn College and demanded the `` low-down '' on a boy who was going out with his daughter.

The bride, daughter of Rhodes Semmes Baker Jr. of Houston and the late Mrs. Baker, was president of Kappa Kappa Gamma and a member of Mortar Board at Aj.

Mrs. Clayton Nairne, whose daughter, was among the court maids, chose a deep greenish blue lace gown.

Mrs. Fenwick Eustis, whose daughter was also a maid to the queen, wore an ashes of roses slipper satin gown.

It was safe to assume that Papa, sighing heavily, had said many times to his remaining daughter, `` Thank God your poor mother was spared this '', and indeed it might be true that it had been easier for Henrietta to leave, with her hand in Charles' hand, just because her `` poor mother '' was gone already and would never know.

Thetis, although a daughter of the sea-god Nereus, was also brought up by Hera, further explaining her resistance to the advances of Zeus.

Lincoln's mother, Nancy, was the daughter of Lucy Hanks, and was born in what is now Mineral County, West Virginia, then part of Virginia.

His arrival must have occurred during the " dark ages " that followed the destruction of the Mycenaean civilization, and his conflict with Gaia ( Mother Earth ) was represented by the legend of his slaying her daughter the serpent Python.

Daphne was a nymph, daughter of the river god Peneus, who had scorned Apollo.

Leucothea was daughter of Orchamus and sister of Clytia.

Cassandra, was daughter of Hecuba and Priam, and Troilus ' half-sister.

Coronis, was daughter of Phlegyas, King of the Lapiths.

Phlegyas was irate after the death of his daughter and burned the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.

Poirot was buried at Styles, and his funeral was arranged by his best friend Hastings and Hastings ' daughter Judith.