In Greek mythology , Laodice (/leɪˈɒdəˌsi/ ; Ancient Greek : Λαοδίκη, [la.odíkɛː] ; "people-justice") may refer to the following figures:
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.[ 1]
Laodice, daughter of Aloeus , wife of Aeolus and mother of Salmoneus and Cretheus .[ 2]
Laodice , daughter of King Priam and a princess of Troy [ 3] Laodice, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra , sometimes conflated with Electra .[ 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]
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 .[ 6]
Laodice, alternate name for Iphthime , daughter of Icarius of Sparta and Asterodia , daughter of Eurypylus . She was the sister of Polymelos , Damasiclus (Amasiclus ) and Penelope .[ 7] Laodamia , Mede and Hypsipyle .[ 8]
Laodice, daughter of Iphis and mother of Capaneus .[ 9]
Laodice, a golden-haired lover of Poseidon .[ 10]
Notes
^ Clement of Alexandria , Exhortations 3.4 ^ Scholia ad Homer , Odyssey 11.235 ^ Homer, Iliad 3.123
^ Homer, Iliad 9.142 ff.
^ Apollodorus , 3.9.1 & 3.14.3 ; Pausanias , 2.26.6 & 8.4.4 ^ Pausanias, 8.5.3 & 8.53.7
^ Scholia ad Homer , Odyssey 1.275 & 277 ^ Scholia ad Homer, Odyssey 4.797
^ Scholia ad Euripides , Phoenissae 180 ; ad Pindar , Nemean Ode 9.30
^ Ovid , Heroides 19.135
References
Homer , The Iliad ISBN 978-0674995796 . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN 978-0198145318 . 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. ISBN 0-674-99328-4 . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols . Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
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.
