Laodamia

Lāŏdămīa, ae, f., = Λαοδάμεια,

• a daughter of Acastus; she followed her husband Protesilāus, who had been slain by Hector, to the Lower World, Hyg. Fab. 243; Ov. P. 3, 1, 110; id. H. 13, 2; Cat. 68, 74.

Lāodamīa, ae, f. (Λαοδάμεια), Tochter des Akastus u. Gemahlin des Protesilaus, den sie, als er von Hektor getötet wurde, nicht überleben wollte, Ov. ex Pont. 3, 1, 110. – ➳ Nbf. Lāudamīa, Catull. 68, 74 u. 80 105. Iustin. 28, 3, 5.

Lāŏdămīa, (13) æ, f. (Λαοδάμεια), Laodamie [fille dʼAcaste, femme de Protésilas] : Catul. 68, 74 ; Ov. P. 3, 1, 110 ; Hyg. Fab. 243.

Laodamīa

(Λαοδάμεια). (1) 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).

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

Laodamia Laodamia, daughter of Amyclas and mother of Triphylus

• Paus. 10.9.5

Laodamia(2), daughter of Bellerophon

• Apollod. 3.1.1

Laodamia (3)

• makes an image of her dead husband Protesilaus: Apollod. E.3.29
• mistakes his ghost for himself, and stabs herself: Apollod. E.3.29, Apollod. E.3.30