From right to left: Eros, Helen, Phylonoe, Polydeuces' wife Phoebe, then a tiny bit of Clytemnestra.
From right to left: an unnamed woman (possibly Timandra), Phylonoe, and a Cleopatra. This is probably Helen's Phylonoe since Leda and Tyndareus are depicted elsewhere here.
Apollodorus' Library: Tyndareos and Leda had Timandra, whom Echemos married, and Clytaimnestra, whom Agamemnon married, and also Phylonoe, whom Artemis made immortal.
Hesiodic Ehoiai: Leda [...] bore Timandra and cow-eyed Clytemnestra and Phylonoe who contended in beauty with the immortal goddesses. [... Artemis] made her immortal and ageless all her days.
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It's funny how Polyboea wasn't 100% confirmed to have become a virgin huntress of Artemis but still had tangible relationships with Artemis' other huntresses or companions.
Her maternal great-grandmother Taygete was one of the Pleiades who were close to Artemis.
Her sister Laodamia married Arcas, the son of Callisto.
Her great-grandniece Phylonoe was included in Artemis' retinue.
If you add up the number of daughters Tyndareos and Leda can have, you end up with five; Helen and Klytaimnestra, Phylonoe, Timandra and Phoebe.
The first four are mentioned in some of our earliest sources (the Iliad and Odyssey, the Catalogue of Women/Great Ehoiai), Phoebe earliest in Iphigenia in Aulis, I think.
Phoebe is basically only a name - I'm not sure she is ever even given a husband? Which is curious. She is There, that's all there is to her. In Ovid's Heroides 8 (Hermione's letter to Orestes), she's even still at home to be distraught over Helen's disappearance, the only of the sisters so mentioned. (Younger than the rest, perhaps? Or for some reason just not married off?)
Phylonoe has no husband either, but that's because - for whatever reason - Artemis has her immortalized; the fragments are too fragmentary to say anything else, aside from that Phylonoe was beautiful like the goddesses. Certainly a more illustrious position to be in than her sister.
In comparison to these two, the three left are all joined by one thing; adultery.
Both Stesichoros and the Catalogue/Great Ehoiai (it's unsure where the fragment belongs) specify Aphrodite having some hand in this but also use words as "left" and "shamed the bed". In Stesichoros Tyndareos has forgotten to sacrifice to Aphrodite; in the C/GE the surviving fragment doesn't give us a reason, merely that Aphrodite was angry/jealous/indignant upon seeing them.
The rest of this is going to assume wilful action on Helen, Klytaimnestra and Timandra's parts, because it's more interesting for the thoughts I'm having. Whatever Aphrodite did (stir up desire, "merely" supply opportunity and target) each sister acted on her own (desire), and that's what counts.
Klytaimnestra would obviously be the last to commit adultery and marry her new partner - is Helen or Timandra first? How much time is there between those first two - does either Helen or Timandra have the opportunity to think about what her sister did, form some judgement or opinion on it before she is next to be put in a similar situation?
Support and understanding, for the unfair standards and expectations set on women they all have to live under? Scorn, for being "weak", for failing to do what a woman ought?
Those different possibilities of course apply to both Phoebe and Klytaimnestra too - how do they look at their sisters in the wake of breaking all social mores and expectations, what do they feel about it?
In the end only Phoebe will be left - does she cling all the more tightly to behave as a perfect woman, unassailable in her chastity? Is that why she has no husband to her name - and is it willing or unwilling, no man wishing to venture for marriage with yet another Tyndarid, because look at the other two/three?
Klytaimnestra being the last of them has the most deliberate action behind hers, I think. She has her sisters adulteries to look back on, knowing what it has given them (has she judged herself?), yet, she still takes Aigisthos to her bed, and I don't think it would just be as another way to revenge herself on Agamemnon. Presumably she does desire him, too.
(... Helen and Klytaimnestra sort of sharing part of what they like in men, both being into effeminate men...)
And, setting aside the way they each might judge (or not judge) each other first, all three of them, knowing each other well, each take desire in hand and decides to act on what they want. It's not what they should do, not what women are allowed to do, but they do it. There were five of them in that family (depending on how much age difference there is between them), able to share ideas and opinions.
Did they all at some point agree that the expectations were dumb and unfair? Did Phoebe - the youngest or just the one who is left behind by her more illustrious, outrageous, sisters, always cling to the expectations, agreeing with them?
Is she just sitting somewhere, afraid of when this sort of desire for more, for too much, will come for her too?
Phylonoe, made immortal by Artemis, for @the-purrletarian
So there was not a lot of info for Philonoe… so shoutout to Psuedo-Apollodorus for the like, one reference to her (i know there are more but he gave me the most)
i based her design off of the phrasiklea kore and the peplos kore!
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Tyndareus and Leda had daughters, to wit, Timandra, whom Echemus married, and Clytaemnestra, whom Agamemnon married; also another daughter Phylonoe, whom Artemis made immortal.
(You can say “whom Artemis married”, you know? ;-) )
Steischorus says that while sacrificing to the gods Tyndareus forgot Aphrodite and that the goddess was angry and made his daughters twice and thrice wed and deserters of their husbands ... And Hesiod also says: And laughter-loving Aphrodite felt jealous when she looked on them and cast them into evil report. Then Timandra deserted Echemus and went and came to Phyleus, dear to the deathless gods; and even so Clytaemnestra deserted god-like Agamemnon and lay with Aegisthus and chose a worse mate; and even so Helen dishonoured the couch of golden-haired Menelaus.
Scholia on Euripides' Orestes
The one went up into [Tyndareus' vigorous marriage- bed, Leda, [beautiful-haired, like the beams] of the moon, and bore [Timandra] and cow-eyed [Clytemnestra] and Phylonoe [who contended in beauty with the immortal goddesses. She [ ] Arrow-shooter and she made [her immortal and ageless all her days.
Hesiod's Catalogue of Women
Tyndareus and Leda had daughters, to wit, Timandra, whom Echemus married, and Clytaemnestra, whom Agamemnon married; also another daughter Phylonoe, whom Artemis made immortal.
Apollodorus 3.10.6
Aphrodite vowing to make Tyndareus' daughters elopers, Philonoe made immortal by Artemis in the same line as her sisters marrying, much to think about
