Laodice (Greek myth)

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

## References

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Markx121993/sandbox?action=edit
* 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. 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.

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