Timandra

Overview

Timandra is a daughter of Tyndareus and Leda and a sister of Clytemnestra and Helen in Greek mythological genealogy. Her story belongs to the wider family traditions surrounding the Trojan War.

Generation

Heroic Age

Notes

Timandra is one of the less famous daughters associated with the household of Tyndareus and Leda.

She belongs to the same extraordinary family as Helen and Clytemnestra, whose marriages and relationships become central to the Trojan War and the House of Atreus.

Timandra is traditionally associated with Echemus, the Arcadian hero and king who defeated Hyllus in traditions concerning the return of the Heraclids.

Other traditions connect Timandra with Phyleus, adding another story of disrupted marriage to the wider traditions surrounding the daughters of Tyndareus.

Ancient authors sometimes group the marital histories of Helen, Clytemnestra and Timandra together when explaining misfortune within Tyndareus' family.

The details vary significantly between sources, and Timandra never develops the same extensive independent mythology as Helen or Clytemnestra.

Her importance lies in revealing that the famous daughters of Tyndareus belonged to a larger mythological family whose stories extended well beyond the two women who dominate surviving tragedy and epic.