Laodike (daughter of Agapenor)

Laodike ( Greek  Λαοδίκη ) is in Greek mythology the daughter of Agapenor , the king of the Arcadian Tegea , who was driven home from Troy to Cyprus , where he founded the sanctuary of Aphrodite in Paphos . From there, Laodice sent Athena Alea a peplos to Tegea. In Tegea she founded a sanctuary of the Paphic Aphrodite .

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• Pausania's description of Greece 8,5,2; 8.53.3

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Laodike 4 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, column 1829 ( digitized version ).
• J. Roy: Pausanias 8.5.2-3 and 8.53.7. Laodice, Descendant of Agapenor, Tegea and Cyprus. In: L'Antiquité Classique 56, 1987, pp. 192-200.