Laomedon
mythological figure · 8 works · 14 mentions · 15 anchored passages
King Laomedon · mighty Laomedon
in the texts
Iliad
Former king of Troy whose broken promise to Herakles led to the city's earlier sack.
And Sarpedon, leader of the Lycians, answered, "Tlepolemos, your father overthrew Ilion by reason of Laomedon's folly in refusing payment to one who had served him well.
Far other was Herakles, my own brave and lion-hearted father, who came here for the horses of Laomedon, and though he had six ships only, and few men to follow him, sacked the city of Ilion and made a wilderness of her highways.
Bucolion was eldest son to Laomedon, but he was a bastard.
Tusculan Disputations
Mythical king said to have been wronged when the gods took Ganymede.
no just cause why so great a wrong should be done to Laomedon.
Orations
Earlier king of Troy, father of Priam, remembered for giving Hesione to Telamon and for breaking his promise of horses to Heracles.
For indeed Laomedon gave his own daughter Hesione to Telamon;
'Who once, coming hither for the horses of Laomedon, with but six ships and fewer men, sacked the city of Ilium and made desolate her streets.
The Trojan Women
Earlier king of Troy whose city was destroyed by Heracles and Telamon, recalled by the chorus as precedent for the current fall of Troy.
When he led the chosen flower of Hellas, vexed for the steeds, and at the fair stream of Simois he stayed his sea-borne ship and fastened cables to the stern, and forth from the ship he took the bow his hand could deftly shoot, to be the doom of Laomedon;
Evagoras
Mythological ruler opposed by Heracles and Telamon.
Telamon won the meed of valor in an expedition with Heracles against Laomedon, and Peleus, having distinguished himself in the battle with the Centaurs and having won glory in many other hazardous enterprises, wedded Thetis, the daughter of Nereus, he a mortal winning an immortal bride.
Isthmean
King of Troy whose wrongdoing (failure to honor his bargain) prompted Heracles's punitive expedition.
The son of Alcmena led him in ships to Troy, the toil of heroes, for war that delights in bronze, as an eager ally along with the men of Tiryns because of Laomedon’s wrongdoing.
Ajax
Trojan royal father of Teucer's mother, cited in Teucer's defense of noble birth.
And she was the daughter of Laomedon, of royal blood, and it was as the flower of the spoil that Alcmena’s son gave her to Telamon.
Apologeticum
King of Troy who hired Neptune's building services.
another lets out the building services of Neptune to Laomedon.