Term in Greek mythology
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]
- ^ Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 26.7 Merkelbach & West (1967)
- ^ Argonautica Orphica 127 ff.
- ^ Argonautica Orphica 135
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.222
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.2
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.9
- ^ Pausanias, 9.27.6; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
- ^ Pausanias, 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661)
- ^ Athenaeus, 13.4 with Herodorus as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.7.8
- ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.139
- ^ Homer, Iliad 21.85 & 22.48
- ^ Tzetzes, Homerica 437 ff.