Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), L, Laocoön, Laodamīa

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Laodamīa

（Λαοδάμεια).

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A daughter of Acastus and Astydamia, and wife of Protesilaüs. (See Protesilaüs.) When she received intelligence of the death of her husband in the Trojan War, she caused an image of him to be formed, which she would never allow to be out of her sight. Her father ordered the image to be burned, that her thoughts might be diverted from her loss; but Laodamia threw herself into the flames, and perished along with it. Thence probably the tradition adopted by some poets that the gods restored life to Protesilaüs for three hours, and that this hero, finding the decree irreversible, by which he was to return to the shades below, prevailed on Laodamia to accompany him thither. She was also called Phylaces (Verg. Aen. vi. 447; Ovid, Her. 13; Hyg. Fab. 104).

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A daughter of Bellerophon by Achemoné, the daughter of king Iobates. She had a son by Zeus called Sarpedon. See Sarpedon.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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