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In Greek mythology, the name Laodice referred to different people but most importantly the wife of Telephus and the Queen of Mysia. The bust of Zeus found at Otricoli (Sala Rotonda, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican) Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. ...

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Laodice

Myth

The Murder of Helicaon

  • Fairest daughter of Priam of Troy and Hecuba, wife of Telephus, the son of Heracles. According to Apollodorus, after the destruction of Troy, she was "swallowed up by the earth." (Bibliotheca, 11.5.23); when Telephus came to fight the Greeks of and defend Troy as they set foot on Asia Minor Helicaon forced her to marry him and was going to drown their six year old son Eurypylus in Xanthos' Lake, but Telephus king of Mysia returned just in time. He decapitated his head and had his face engraved in all Mysian shields with the same expression of terror and fear in his eyes.

King Priam killed by Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, detail of an Attic red-figure amphora In Greek mythology, Priam (Greek Πρίαμος, Priamos) was the king of Troy during the Trojan War, and youngest son of Laomedon. ... Troy or Ilion, see Troy (disambiguation) and Ilion (disambiguation). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Bibliotheca (in English Library), in three books, provides a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends. ... A Greek mythological figure, Telephus referred to two different people. ... Mysia. ...

She abandons Helicaon for Telephus

Yet others say that that she had married Helicaon but when Telephus came she tricked him into believing that the cattle that was handed down to him by his father had been stolen and that she would exact his revenge if he would marry her. And so at night she stabbed him and married Telephus which explains why she was punished by being sucked up into a hell pit chasm in the earth. In Greek mythology Helicaon is the son of Antenor and Theano. ...


The Rape of Laodice

Afterwards when the Greeks were attacking from the inside of the walls of Troy Acamas raped her and had his many warriors hold Telephus down so that he could do nothing to stop it and was forced to watch his wife scream and wail at her misfortune. In Greek mythology, Acamas (unwearying) was the son of Phaedra and Theseus. ...


Historical Laodices

In Hellenistic history, too, many women bear this name, almost all of them related: The term Hellenistic (established by the German historian Johann Gustav Droysen) in the history of the ancient world is used to refer to the shift from a culture dominated by ethnic Greeks, however scattered geographically, to a culture dominated by Greek-speakers of whatever ethnicity, and from the political dominance...


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Laodice (176 words)
Laodice of Macedonia was the mother of Seleucus I Nicator, founder of the Seleucid dynasty.
Laodice of Pontus, her sister, was another daughter of Mithridates II king of Pontus and the wife of Achaeus, a Seleucid general.
Laodice of Cappadocia was the wife of Ariarathes VI of Cappadocia
Laodice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (242 words)
Laodice of Macedonia was the mother of Seleucus I Nicator, founder of the Seleucid dynasty.
Laodice of Pontus, her sister, was another daughter of Mithridates II king of Pontus and the wife of Achaeus, a Seleucid general.
Laodice of Cappadocia was the wife of Ariarathes VI of Cappadocia
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