Laodamia

In Greek mythology, the name Laodamia (Λαοδάμεια) referred to:

• Laodamia or Deidamia, daughter of Bellerophon and Philonoe, sister of Hippolochus and Isander and the mother of Sarpedon by Zeus. She was shot by Artemis (that is, died a sudden, instant death) one day when she was weaving.^[1][2] Diodorus Siculus makes her the wife of Evander, who was a son of Sarpedon the elder and by her father of Sarpedon the younger.^[3]
• Laodamia, daughter of Acastus and Astydameia and the wife of Protesilaus. When her husband fell in the Trojan War, Laodamia committed suicide rather than be without him.^[4][5][6]
• Laodamia or Leaneira, a daughter of Amyclas and Diomede, mother of Triphylus by Arcas.^[7][8]
• Laodamia, daughter of Alcmaeon, wife of Peleus and mother by him of Polydora.^[9] But see Antigone (daughter of Eurytion).
• Laodamia, wife of Anticlus.^[10] Her husband was one of the men who were hiding in the Trojan Horse.^[11]
• Laodamia, another name for Iphthime.^[12]
• Laodamia or Arsinoe, nurse of Orestes. She saved his life by sending him to Strophius after the murder of Agamemnon, whereas Aegisthus killed her own son, taking him for Orestes.^[13][14]
• Laodamia, alternate name for Hippodamia (wife of Pirithous) occurring in a red-figure vase painting.^[15]

References

1. Homer, Iliad, 6. 197-205
2. Oxford Classical Mythology Online. "Chapter 25: Myths of Local Heroes and Heroines". Classical Mythology, Seventh Edition. Oxford University Press USA. Retrieved April 26, 2010.
3. Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 5. 79. 3
4. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, Epitome of Book 4, 3. 30
5. Ovid, Heroides, 13
6. Hyginus Fabulae 104
7. Pausanias, Description of Greece 10. 9. 5
8. Bibliotheca 3. 9. 1
9. Scholia on Homer, Iliad, 2. 684
10. Tryphiodorus, The Taking of Ilios, 475
11. Bibliotheca, Epitome of Book 4, 5. 19
12. Scholia on Homer, Odyssey, 4. 797
13. Scholia on Aeschylus, Libation-Bearers, 714 (729)
14. Pindar, Pythian Ode, 11. 25 with scholia
15. Archäologische Zeitung, 29. 159