Timandra
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Timandra may refer to:
- Timandra (mythology)Timandra (mythology)In Greek mythology, Timandra was one of the daughters of Leda and Tyndareus. Timandra married Echemus, the king of Arcadia, and with him had a son named Ladocus. Like her sisters Helen and Clytemnestra, she was also unfaithful and deserted Echemus for Phyleus, the king of...
, sister of Helen of Troy - Timandra, lover of Aegypius (mythology)Aegypius (mythology)In Greek mythology, Aegypius , son of Antheus, son of Nomion, a Thessalian, was the lover of Timandre, a widow. Her son, Neophron, resented this relationship, and plotted against it by seducing Bulis , Aegypius' mother...
- Timandra, AlcibiadesAlcibiadesAlcibiades, son of Clinias, from the deme of Scambonidae , was a prominent Athenian statesman, orator, and general. He was the last famous member of his mother's aristocratic family, the Alcmaeonidae, which fell from prominence after the Peloponnesian War...
' mistress at the time of his assassination - Timandra, name of a genus of moth, including the blood-veinBlood-veinThe Blood-vein, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It has a scattered distribution in Western and Central Europe north of the Alps. In the British Isles the distribution is patchy outside southern England and Wales...
moth - Timandra, name for Croton (genus)Croton (genus)Croton is an extensive flowering plant genus in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, established by Carl Linnaeus in 1737. The plants of this genus were described and introduced to Europeans by Georg Eberhard Rumphius. The common names for this genus are rushfoil and croton, but the latter also...
, a genus of spurges - 603 Timandra603 Timandra-External links:*...
, an asteroid - Timandra (barque), which provided passage for emigrants from Plymouth, England to New PlymouthNew PlymouthNew Plymouth is the major city of the Taranaki Region on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is named after Plymouth, Devon, England, from where the first English settlers migrated....
, New Zealand, a number of steamships