Legendary Heroes - Their Women and Female Heroes

1. Agave (Pentheus, Dionysus)
2. Alcmene Wife of Amphityron
3. Andnromache Wife of Hector
4. Helen of Troy
5. Legendary Heroes
6. Penelope Wife of Odysseus

Clytemnestra
Clytemnestra was the wife of Agamemnon who ruled in his stead while her husband went off to fight the Trojan War. When he returned, after having murdered their daughter Iphigenia, she or her lover killed him. Their son, Orestes, killed her.

The Women and Children of Hercules
A list of the women Hercules was involved with and the children they bore him.

Greek Mothers From Epic and Drama
Had it not been for the beauty of Helen, Hermione's mother, there would have been no Trojan War. Had it not been for their mothers, Jocasta and Clytemnestra, the heroes Oedipus and Orestes would have remained obscure. Mortal mothers of other legendary heroes had important (if lesser) roles in the ancient Greek epics of Homer and drama of the tragedians Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.