Labdacus
mythological figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
house of Labdacus · line of Labdacus · son of Labdacus
in the texts
Phoenissae
Ancestor of Laius; the royal house of Thebes is repeatedly called 'the house of Labdacus'.
Truly Strife is a goddess to fear, who devised these troubles for the princes of this land, for the much-suffering sons of Labdacus.
He married at that time Harmonia, the daughter of Cypris, and begot Polydorus from whom they say Labdacus was born, and Laius from him.
Oedipus Tyrannus
The ancestral figure of Laius' house and line.
Whoever knows by whom Laius son of Labdacus was slain, I order him to declare all to me.
Never in past days or in these have I heard how the house of Labdacus or the son of Polybus had any quarrel with one another that
I could bring as proof in assailing the public reputation of Oedipus, seeking to avenge the line of Labdacus for the undiscovered murder.