Laodice (Greek myth)
In Greek mythology, Laodice (/leɪˈɒdəˌsi/; Ancient Greek: Λαοδίκη, [la.odíkɛː]; "people-justice") may refer to the following figures:
- Laodice, daughter of King Priam and a princess of Troy[1]
- Laodice, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, sometimes conflated with Electra.[2]
- Laodice, one of the Hyperborean maidens. Together with her sister, Hyperoche, Laodice was buried after her death on the temple grounds of Apollo , where their grave was worshiped by the residents.[3]
- Laodice, the nymph-consort of Phoroneus and possible mother of his children.[4]
- Laodice, daughter of King Cinyras of Cyprus and Metharme. She was the wife of Elatus and by him mother of Stymphalus and Pereus, and possibly of Ischys, Cyllen and Aepytus too.[5][6]
- Laodice, daughter of Agapenor, who was known for having sent to Tegea a robe as a gift to Athena Alea, and to have built a temple of Aphrodite Paphia in Tegea.[7]
- Laodice, daughter of Aloeus, wife of Aeolus and mother of Salmoneus and Cretheus.[8]
- Laodice or Laodamia, alternate name for Iphthime, daughter of Icarius of Sparta and Asterodia, daughter of Eurypylus. She was the sister of Amasichus, Phalereus, Thoon, Pheremmelias and Perilaos.[9]
- Laodice, daughter of Iphis and mother of Capaneus.[10]
- Laodice, a golden-haired lover of Poseidon.[11]
Notes
- ^ Homer, Iliad 3.123
- ^ Homer, Iliad 9.142 ff.
- ^ Clement, Refresher 3.4
- ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 177
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.9.1 & 3.14.3
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.26.6 & 8.4.4
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 8.5.3 & 8.53.7
- ^ Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 11.235
- ^ Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 1.275-277 & 4.797
- ^ Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women 189; on Pindar, Nemean Ode 9.30
- ^ Ovid, Heroides 19.119-150
References
- Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Publius Ovidius Naso, The Epistles of Ovid. London. J. Nunn, Great-Queen-Street; R. Priestly, 143, High-Holborn; R. Lea, Greek-Street, Soho; and J. Rodwell, New-Bond-Street. 1813. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
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