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In Greek mythology, Laodice (/leɪˈɒdəˌsi/; Ancient Greek: Λαοδίκη, [la.odíkɛː]; "people-justice") may refer to the following figures:

  • Laodice, the nymph-consort of Phoroneus and possible mother of his children.[1]
  • 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.[2]
  • Laodice, daughter of Aloeus, wife of Aeolus and mother of Salmoneus and Cretheus.[3]
  • Laodice, daughter of King Priam and a princess of Troy[4]
  • Laodice, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, sometimes conflated with Electra.[5]
  • 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.[6][7]
  • Laodice, descendant 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.[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

  1. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 177
  2. Clement, Refresher 3.4
  3. Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 11.235
  4. Homer, Iliad 3.123
  5. Homer, Iliad 9.142 ff.
  6. Apollodorus, 3.9.1 & 3.14.3
  7. Pausanias, 2.26.6 & 8.4.4
  8. Pausanias, 8.5.3 & 8.53.7
  9. Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 1.275-277 & 4.797
  10. Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women 189; on Pindar, Nemean Ode 9.30
  11. Ovid, Heroides 19.119-150

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