Laomedon (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Laomedon (/leɪˈɒmɪdɒn/; Ancient Greek: Λαομέδων means "ruler of the people") usually refers to:

• Laomedon, a Trojan king and father of Priam, the king of Troy during the Trojan War.^[1]

Other figures in Greek mythology also named Laomedon include:

• Laomedon, also known as Lamedon, the king of Sicyon who gave up Antiope to Lycus.^[2]
• Laomedon, the Thespian son of Heracles and Meline,^[3] daughter of King Thespius of Thespiae.^[4] Laomedon and his 49 half-brothers were born of Thespius' daughters who were impregnated by Heracles in one night,^[5] for a week^[6] or in the course of 50 days^[7] while hunting for the Cithaeronian lion.^[8] Later on, the hero sent a message to Thespius to keep seven of these sons and send three of them in Thebes while the remaining forty, joined by Iolaus, were dispatched to the island of Sardinia to found a colony.^[9]
• Laomedon, an Ethiopian who went to Troy under the command of their leader, King Memnon, son of Tithonus and Eos. He was eventually slain by Thrasymedes, the Pylian son of Nestor during the Trojan War.^[10]
• Laomedon, one of the Suitors of Penelope. He came from Zacynthos along with other 43 wooers.^[11] Laomedon was ultimately killed by Odysseus, with the help of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus, after returning from his 10-year journey.^[12]

Notes

1. Apollodorus, 3.12.3
2. Pausanias, 2.6.3; Eusebius, Chronographia 63
3. Apollodorus, 2.7.8
4. Apollodorus, 2.4.10
5. Pausanias, 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661)
6. Athenaeus, 13.4 with Herodorus as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
7. Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224
8. Apollodorus, 2.4.9–10
9. Apollodorus, 2.7.6
10. Quintus Smyrnaeus, 2.293
11. Apollodorus, Epitome 7.29
12. Apollodorus, Epitome 7.33

References

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• Tzetzes, John, Book of Histories, Book II-IV translated by Gary Berkowitz from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. Online version at theio.com