Laomedon
Laomedon ( Greek Λαομέδων ) is in Greek mythology the son of Ilos and Eurydice and the second king of Troy .
Laomedon's wife is usually mentioned as Strymo , but occasionally also Plakia. He was the father of Priam , Tithonus and Hesione and, according to legend, he still had contact with the gods: As atonement for the attempt to bind Zeus and thereby disempower him, Apollo had to look after the flocks of Laomedon on the Ida Mountains while Poseidon built the walls of Troy. Only when Laomedon refused the negotiated price to the two gods did this closeness break: Apollo let the plague hit the city, and Poseidon dispatched a sea monster that, according to the oracle, could only be satisfied by the sacrifice of the king's daughter Hesione. When this was then offered to the monster, Heracles saved the daughter and killed the monster. Another quarrel between Laomedon about wages, now with Heracles, led to the siege of the city, as a result of which Laomedon and his family were killed. Only Priam, the subsequent king, and Hesione, who fell to Telamon as a slave , survived.
literature
- Paul Weizsäcker : Laomedon 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Sp. 1843-1846 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Gustav Schwab: The seventh, eighth and ninth labor of Heracles | The later exploits of Heracles | Building Troy
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm II Vollmer: Complete dictionary of the mythology of all nations . 1st edition. tape 1 . Hoffman'sche Verlags-Buchhandlung, Stuttgart 1836, p. 1558 .