He also wrote Sapphic stanzas on Homeric themes but in unHomeric style, comparing Helen of Troy unfavourably with Thetis, the mother of Akhilles.

The mother of Napoleon, his consort Maria Louise ( as Concord ), to model whom the author made a further journey to Paris in 1810, the princess Esterhazy and the muse Polymnia ( Elisa Bonaparte ) take their place in this class, as do the ideal heads, comprising Corinna, Sappho, Laura, Beatrice and Helen of Troy.

In 1886, her mother, inspired by an account in Charles Dickens ' American Notes of the successful education of another deaf and blind woman, Laura Bridgman, dispatched young Helen, accompanied by her father, to seek out Dr. J. Julian Chisolm, an eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist in Baltimore, for advice.

Of course, though Zeus no longer marries, he still has affairs with many other women, such as Semele, mother of Dionysus, Danae, mother of Perseus, Leda, mother of Castor and Polydeuces and Helen, and Alkmene, the mother of Heracles, who married Hebe.

They left Helen with Theseus's mother, Aethra at Aphidna, whence she was rescued by the Dioscuri.

A 1975 episode involving Danno's aunt, played by MacArthur's adoptive mother Helen Hayes, provided a bit of Williams's back story.

His mother was Helen Davis Stevenson.

Theseus took Helen and left her with his mother Aethra or his associate Aphidnus at Aphidnae or Athens.

In Euripides Iphigenia in Aulis, Clytemnestra, Iphigenia's mother and Helen's sister, begs her husband to reconsider his decision, calling Helen a " wicked woman ".

Her immediate family ( mother Helen, father Jake, and younger sister Quinn ) and her best friend Jane Lane appear in nearly every episode.

His father was Erwin Charles Rulifson and mother was Virginia Helen Johns.

* Cycnus, son of King Eredion of Achaea, who, in one version, seduced Leda and made her mother of triplets: the Dioscuri and Helen.

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They left Helen with Theseus ' mother, Aethra, and traveled to the underworld domain of Persephone and her husband Hades.

In some legends, Helen was his mother ; in most, however, he was Menelaus's son by a concubine, Pieris or Tereis, and was born during the Trojan War.

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While many myths indicate Zeus and Leda to be the parents of Helen of Troy, the author of the compilation of myth called Bibliotheke notes the possibility of Nemesis being the mother of Helen ; Nemesis, to avoid Zeus, turns into a goose, but he turns into a swan and mates with her.

It is in this way that Leda comes to be the mother of Helen of Troy, as she kept the egg in a chest until it hatched.

She was the mother of Helen ( Ἑλένη ) of Troy, Clytemnestra ( Κλυταιμνήστρα ), and Castor and Pollux ( Κάστωρ καὶ Πολυδεύκης, also spelled Kastor and Polydeuces ).

Another account of the myth states that Nemesis ( Νέμεσις ) was the mother of Helen, and was also impregnated by Zeus in the guise of a swan.

Julius's wife, Alan's mother, was Ethel Sara ( née Stoney ; 1881 – 1976 ), daughter of Edward Waller Stoney, chief engineer of the Madras Railways.

His father, Johan Henrik Aalto, was a Finnish-speaking land-surveyor and his mother, Selly ( Selma ) Matilda ( née Hackstedt ) was a postmistress.

Sakharov's mother was Yekaterina Alekseyevna Sakharova ( née Sofianos and of Greek ancestry ).

His father, Wilfred Bailey Everett Bixby Jr., was a store clerk and his mother, Jane ( née McFarland ) Bixby, was a senior manager at I. Magnin & Company.

His mother was Matilda Beatrice DeMille ( née Samuel ), whose parents were both of German Jewish heritage.

Sarandon was born and raised in Beckley, West Virginia, the son of restaurateurs Cliffie ( née Cardullias ) and Chris Sarandon, Sr. His mother is of Greek descent and his father, whose surname was originally " Sarondonethes ", was a Greek immigrant.

His father, Donald Walton Lynch, was a research scientist working for the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and his mother, Edwina " Sunny " Lynch ( née Sundholm ), was an English language tutor whose grandfather's parents had immigrated to the United States from Finland in the 19th century.

He is of English ( maternal ), Swiss and possibly Native American Modoc Tribe multi-ethnic ( paternal ) ancestry His father, Howard " Pete " Brubeck, was a cattle rancher, and his mother, Elizabeth ( née Ivey ), who had studied piano in England under Myra Hess and intended to become a concert pianist, taught piano for extra money.

His mother, Margaret Mary " Peggy " ( née Burns ) worked as a cinema usherette, while his father, Haywood Stenton " John " Jones was a promotions officer for Barnardo's.

His mother Mary ( née Bennett ) suffered from a benign brain tumour when Donald was very young.

His mother, Nora ( née Sullivan ), was a maid, and his father, John Leary, was an auto mechanic.

His mother, Ida Mabel Blair ( née Limouzin ), grew up in Moulmein, Burma, where her French father was involved in speculative ventures.

His father was Gebhard Himmler, a teacher, and his mother was Anna Maria Himmler ( née Heyder ), a devout Roman Catholic.

His mother, Anita Frances ( née Levy ; later Livingston ; May 22, 1926 — July 1981 ), was a lawyer and judge in New Orleans and, later, a Louisiana Supreme Court justice.

His mother, Jane Polk ( née Knox ), was a descendant of a brother of the Scottish religious reformer John Knox.

Jane Wallace ( née Wood ), Reno's mother, raised her children and then became an investigative reporter for the Miami News.

His mother, Ruth Hilda ( née Holmes ; 1916 – 1991 ), taught at an elementary school and was a liberal activist, while his father, Edmund Norwood Bacon ( May 2, 1910 – October 14, 2005 ), was a well-respected architect and a prominent Philadelphian who had been Executive Director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission for many years.

Rasmussen was born in Ilulissat, Greenland, the son of a Danish missionary, the vicar Christian Rasmussen, and an Inuit-Danish mother, Lovise Rasmussen ( née Fleischer ).

His father, Simon Stockhausen, was a schoolteacher, and his mother Gertrud ( née Stupp ) was the daughter of a prosperous family of farmers in Neurath in the Cologne Bight.

Martin Van Buren's mother was Maria Van Alen ( née Hoes ) Van Buren ( 1747 – 1818 ).

Her father was Dr. Aubrey Bourke of Ballina, County Mayo, while her mother was from Donegal, Dr. Tessa Bourke ( née O ' Donnell ) of Carndonagh, Inishowen.

His mother, Maria Panteleyevna Gorbacheva ( née Gopkalo ), was a kolkhoz worker.

His father, Noah Sr. ( 1722 – 1813 ), was a descendant of Connecticut Governor John Webster ; his mother Mercy ( née Steele ; 1727 – 1794 ) was a descendant of Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony.

Abdul's father, Harry Abdul, was born in Aleppo, Syria, raised in Brazil, and subsequently immigrated to the United States ; her mother, Lorraine M. ( née Rykiss ), is originally from Minnedosa, Manitoba in Canada with ancestors from Russia and Ukraine, and Abdul derives Canadian citizenship through her.

Stanley Milgram was born in 1933 to a Jewish family in New York City, the child of a Romanian-born mother, Adele ( née Israel ), and a Hungarian-born father, Samuel Milgram.