Laothoe

For the moth genus, see Laothoe (moth).

In Greek mythology, Laothoe (Ancient Greek: Λαοθόη) can refer to the following women:

• Laothoe, consort of King Porthaon of Calydon and mother of Sterope, Stratonice and Eurythemiste.^[1]
• Laothoe or Antianeira,^[2] daughter of Menetus (Meretus), mother of the Argonauts Erytus (Eurytus) and Echion by Hermes.^[3]
• Laothoe, a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede^[4] or by one of his many wives.^[5] When Heracles hunted and ultimately slayed the Cithaeronian lion,^[6] Laothoe with her other sisters, except for one,^[7] all laid with the hero in a night,^[8] a week^[9] or for 50 days^[10] as what their father strongly desired it to be.^[11] Laothoe bore Heracles a son, Antiphus.^[12]
• Laothoe, mother of Thestor by Idmon.^[13]
• Laothoe, a consort of Priam, king of Troy, and mother of Lycaon and sometimes Polydorus. Her father was Altes, king of the Leleges.^[14]
• Laothoe, wife of the Trojan elder Clytius.^[15]

Notes

1. Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 26.7 Merkelbach & West (1967)
2. Argonautica Orphica 127 ff.
3. Argonautica Orphica 135
4. Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.222
5. Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.2
6. Apollodorus, 2.4.9
7. Pausanias, 9.27.6; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
8. Pausanias, 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661)
9. Athenaeus, 13.4 with Herodorus as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
10. Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224
11. Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3
12. Apollodorus, 2.7.8
13. Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.139
14. Homer, Iliad 21.85 & 22.48
15. Tzetzes, Homerica 437 ff.

References

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• Athenaeus of Naucratis, The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Hesiod, Catalogue of Women from Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914. Online version at theio.com
• 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.
• Merkelbach, R.; West, M.L. (1967), Fragmenta Hesiodea, Oxford, ISBN 0-19-814171-8.
• The Orphic Argonautica, translated by Jason Colavito. Copyright 2011. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• 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
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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