Laodike (daughter of Priam)

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Laodike ( Greek  Λαοδίκη ) is a daughter of Priam and Hecabe in Greek mythology .

She is the wife of Helikaon, who spares her enslavement after the conquest of Troy . Elsewhere she is the wife of Telephos , who is considered to be the husband of Astyoche , Priam's sister.

According to later tradition, Laodike fell in love as a virgin with Theseus ' son Akamas (or his brother Demophon ), who had come to Troy as an envoy with Diomedes to return Helen , and gave birth to a son, Munitos (or Munichos ), that of Aithra , Akamas 'Helena's grandmother and servant at the time, raised and given to Akamas after the conquest of Troy. In the Lesche der Knidier in Delphi she appears among the captured Trojan women.

According to another reading, when the city was destroyed, Laodike herself was swallowed up by a crevasse at her supplication or she later died out of desperation over the loss of her son, who had perished at Olynthus from the bite of a snake.

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Individual evidence

  1. Homer Iliad 3,124; 6.252. Hyginus Mythographus Fabulae 90. Library of Apollodor 3,12,5
  2. ^ Hyginus Fabulae 101
  3. Scholion to Homer Odyssey 11,220
  4. ↑ The oldest detectable source of information is Hegesippos of Mekyberna , 4th century BC. Chr.
  5. Plutarch Theseus 34
  6. Parthenios from Nicaea Erotika parthemata 16. Johannes Tzetzes Ad Lycophronem 314; 447; 495.
  7. Johannes Tzetzes Ad Lycophronem 495. Pausanias 10,26,3. Plutarch Kimon 4
  8. Libraries of Apollodor E 5.23. Quintus Smyrnaeus Posthomerica 13,544-551. Tryphiodorus Excidium Ilii 660-663. Johannes Tzetzes Posthomerica 736; Scholia to Lycophron 314