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In Greek mythology
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Laomedon was a Trojan
Troy

Troy is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer....
 king, son of Ilus
Ilus

Ilus is the name of several mythological persons associated directly or indirectly with Troy....
, brother of Ganymedes
Ganymede (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Ganymede, or Ganymedes is a divine hero whose homeland was the Troad. He was a Troy prince, son of the eponym Tros of Dardania, and of Callirrhoe , and brother of Ilus and Assaracus....
 and father of Priam
Priam

In Greek mythology, Priam was the king of Troy during the Trojan War and youngest son of Laomedon. Modern scholars derive his name from the Luwian compound Priimuua, which means "exceptionally courageous"....
, Astyoche
Astyoche

The name Astyoche was attributed to three individuals in Greek mythology.*Daughter of Laomedon, wife of Telephus and mother of Eurypylus.*Daughter of Actor , mother of Ascalaphus with Ares....
, Lampus
Lampus

In Greek mythology, Lampus was an elder of Troy, son of King Laomedon. Father of Dolops, he was killed by Heracles.Ilias III, 147.Nowadays, Lampos has survived as a Greek family surname....
, Hicetaon
Hicetaon

In Greek mythology, Hicetaon was a son of King Laomedon of Troy. After Paris kidnapped Helen of Troy, Hicetaon suggested that she be returned to Menelaus to avoid war....
, Clytius
Clytius

Clytius is the name of many people in Greek mythology:#A son of Laomedon, brother of Priam, and an elder of Troy. Also spelled Klythios, Klytios, Clytios, and Klytius....
, Cilla
Cilla (mythology)

Cilla in Greek mythology is the name of two characters, and one city.1. Cilla, sister of Hecuba. She was married to Thymoetes, brother of Priam....
, Proclia
Proclia

In Greek mythology Proclia or Proclea is the daughter of Laomedon, king of Troy or Clytius, son of Laomedon. She married Cycnus, king of Colonae, and bore him two children, Tenes and Hemithea. ...
, Aethilla
Aethilla

Aethilla was a daughter of Laomedon and sister of Priam, Astyoche, and Medesicaste. After the fall of Troy she became the prisoner of Protesilaus, who took her, together with other captives, with him on his voyage home....
, Clytodora, and Hesione
Hesione

file:HerculesHesione.jpgIn Greek mythology, the most prominent Hesione was a Troy princess, daughter of King Laomedon of Troy, sister of Priam and second wife of King Telamon of Salamis Island....
. Tithonus
Tithonus

In Greek mythology, Tithonus or Tithonos was the lover of Eos, Titan of the dawn. He was a Troy by birth, the son of King Laomedon of Troy by a Naiad named Strymo ....
 is also described by most sources as Laomedon's eldest legitimate son; and most sources omit Ganymedes from the list of Laomedon's children, but indicate him as his uncle instead. Laomedon's two wives are Strymo (or Rhoeo) and Leucippe
Leucippe

In Greek mythology, Leucippe is the name of the following individuals:*One of the Minyades, three sisters who were driven by Dionysus to kill Hippasus , the son of Leucippe...
; by the former he begot Tithonus
Tithonus

In Greek mythology, Tithonus or Tithonos was the lover of Eos, Titan of the dawn. He was a Troy by birth, the son of King Laomedon of Troy by a Naiad named Strymo ....
 and by the latter King Priam
Priam

In Greek mythology, Priam was the king of Troy during the Trojan War and youngest son of Laomedon. Modern scholars derive his name from the Luwian compound Priimuua, which means "exceptionally courageous"....
 (see John Tzetzes
John Tzetzes

John Tzetzes , was a Byzantine Empire poet and grammarian, known to have lived at Constantinople during the 12th century.Tzetzes was Georgians on his mother's side ....
' Scholia in Lycophronem 18 («»)).






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In Greek mythology
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Laomedon was a Trojan
Troy

Troy is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer....
 king, son of Ilus
Ilus

Ilus is the name of several mythological persons associated directly or indirectly with Troy....
, brother of Ganymedes
Ganymede (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Ganymede, or Ganymedes is a divine hero whose homeland was the Troad. He was a Troy prince, son of the eponym Tros of Dardania, and of Callirrhoe , and brother of Ilus and Assaracus....
 and father of Priam
Priam

In Greek mythology, Priam was the king of Troy during the Trojan War and youngest son of Laomedon. Modern scholars derive his name from the Luwian compound Priimuua, which means "exceptionally courageous"....
, Astyoche
Astyoche

The name Astyoche was attributed to three individuals in Greek mythology.*Daughter of Laomedon, wife of Telephus and mother of Eurypylus.*Daughter of Actor , mother of Ascalaphus with Ares....
, Lampus
Lampus

In Greek mythology, Lampus was an elder of Troy, son of King Laomedon. Father of Dolops, he was killed by Heracles.Ilias III, 147.Nowadays, Lampos has survived as a Greek family surname....
, Hicetaon
Hicetaon

In Greek mythology, Hicetaon was a son of King Laomedon of Troy. After Paris kidnapped Helen of Troy, Hicetaon suggested that she be returned to Menelaus to avoid war....
, Clytius
Clytius

Clytius is the name of many people in Greek mythology:#A son of Laomedon, brother of Priam, and an elder of Troy. Also spelled Klythios, Klytios, Clytios, and Klytius....
, Cilla
Cilla (mythology)

Cilla in Greek mythology is the name of two characters, and one city.1. Cilla, sister of Hecuba. She was married to Thymoetes, brother of Priam....
, Proclia
Proclia

In Greek mythology Proclia or Proclea is the daughter of Laomedon, king of Troy or Clytius, son of Laomedon. She married Cycnus, king of Colonae, and bore him two children, Tenes and Hemithea. ...
, Aethilla
Aethilla

Aethilla was a daughter of Laomedon and sister of Priam, Astyoche, and Medesicaste. After the fall of Troy she became the prisoner of Protesilaus, who took her, together with other captives, with him on his voyage home....
, Clytodora, and Hesione
Hesione

file:HerculesHesione.jpgIn Greek mythology, the most prominent Hesione was a Troy princess, daughter of King Laomedon of Troy, sister of Priam and second wife of King Telamon of Salamis Island....
. Tithonus
Tithonus

In Greek mythology, Tithonus or Tithonos was the lover of Eos, Titan of the dawn. He was a Troy by birth, the son of King Laomedon of Troy by a Naiad named Strymo ....
 is also described by most sources as Laomedon's eldest legitimate son; and most sources omit Ganymedes from the list of Laomedon's children, but indicate him as his uncle instead. Laomedon's two wives are Strymo (or Rhoeo) and Leucippe
Leucippe

In Greek mythology, Leucippe is the name of the following individuals:*One of the Minyades, three sisters who were driven by Dionysus to kill Hippasus , the son of Leucippe...
; by the former he begot Tithonus
Tithonus

In Greek mythology, Tithonus or Tithonos was the lover of Eos, Titan of the dawn. He was a Troy by birth, the son of King Laomedon of Troy by a Naiad named Strymo ....
 and by the latter King Priam
Priam

In Greek mythology, Priam was the king of Troy during the Trojan War and youngest son of Laomedon. Modern scholars derive his name from the Luwian compound Priimuua, which means "exceptionally courageous"....
 (see John Tzetzes
John Tzetzes

John Tzetzes , was a Byzantine Empire poet and grammarian, known to have lived at Constantinople during the 12th century.Tzetzes was Georgians on his mother's side ....
' Scholia in Lycophronem 18 («»)). He also had a son named Bucolion
Bucolion

In Greek mythology, Bucolion was the eldest, but illegitimate, son of the Troy king Laomedon and the nymph Calybe. His wife was the naiads Abarbarea, and they had at least two sons, Aesepus and Pedasus....
 by the nymph Abarbarea
Abarbarea

In classical Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Abarbarea is a naiads. She is the wife of Bucolion and had two sons by him, Aesepus and Pedasus....
, as recounted by Homer
Homer

Homer is traditionally held to be the author of the ancient Greek language epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as of the Homeric Hymns....
 in the Iliad
ILiad

The iLiad is an electronic handheld device, or e-book device, which can be used for document reading and editing. Like the Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle, the iLiad makes use of an electronic paper display....
 (6.22).

Laomedon owned several horse
Horse

The horse is a hoofed mammal, a subspecies of one of seven extant species of the family Equidae. The horse has evolution of the horse over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, odd-toed ungulate animal of today....
s with divine parentage, with whom Anchises
Anchises

In Greek mythology, Anchises was a son of Capys and Themiste or Hieromneme, a naiad. His major claim to fame in Greek mythology is that he was a mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite ....
 secretly bred his own mares.

According to one story, Laomedon's son, Ganymedes, was kidnapped by Zeus
Zeus

Zeus in Greek mythology is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky father and List of thunder gods. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull , and oak....
, who had fallen in love with the beautiful boy and had 69 kids with him. Laomedon grieved for his son. Sympathetic, Zeus sent Hermes
Hermes

Hermes is the messenger of the gods in Greek mythology. An Twelve Olympians, he is also the patron of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds and cowherds, of thieves and road travelers, of orators and wit, of literature and poets, of athletics, of weights and measures, of invention, of general commerce, and of the cunni...
 with two horses so swift they could run over water. Hermes also assured Laomedon that Ganymedes was immortal and would be the cupbearer for the gods, a position of much distinction. However, Ganymedes is more usually described as a son of Tros
Tros

In Greek mythology, Tros was a ruler of Troy and the son of Erichthonius of Dardania or Ilus#Ilus , from whom he inherited the throne. Tros was the father of three sons: Ilus, Assaracus, and Ganymede s....
, an earlier King of Troy and grandfather of Laomedon. Laomedon himself was son of Ilus
Ilus

Ilus is the name of several mythological persons associated directly or indirectly with Troy....
, son of Tros.

Poseidon
Poseidon

In Greek mythology, Poseidon was the god of the sea and, as "Earth-Shaker," of earthquakes. The name of the god Nethuns in Etruscan mythology was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology: both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon....
 and Apollo, having offended Zeus
Zeus

Zeus in Greek mythology is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky father and List of thunder gods. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull , and oak....
, were sent to serve King Laomedon. He had them build huge walls around the city and promised to reward them well, a promise he then refused to fulfill. In vengeance, before the Trojan War
Trojan War

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta....
, Poseidon
Poseidon

In Greek mythology, Poseidon was the god of the sea and, as "Earth-Shaker," of earthquakes. The name of the god Nethuns in Etruscan mythology was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology: both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon....
 sent a sea monster to attack Troy.

Laomedon planned on sacrificing his daughter Hesione
Hesione

file:HerculesHesione.jpgIn Greek mythology, the most prominent Hesione was a Troy princess, daughter of King Laomedon of Troy, sister of Priam and second wife of King Telamon of Salamis Island....
 to Poseidon in the hope of appeasing him. Heracles
Heracles

In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles meaning "glory of Hera", or "Glorious through Hera" Alcides or Alcaeus " was a hero, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson of Perseus....
 (along with Oicles
Oicles

In Greek mythology, Oicles was an Argos, Greece king, father of Amphiaraus, son of Mantius and grandson of Melampus. He helped Heracles fight Laomedon and/or the sea monster attacking Troy and died in the battle....
 and Telamon
Telamon

In Greek mythology, Telamon , son of the king Aeacus, of Aegina, and Endeis and brother of Peleus, accompanied Jason as one his Argonauts, and was present at the hunt for the Calydonian Boar....
) rescued her at the last minute and killed the monster. Laomedon had promised them the magic horses as a reward for their deeds, but when he broke his word, Heracles and his allies took vengeance by putting Troy to siege, killing Laomedon and all his sons save Podarces, who saved his own life by giving Heracles a golden veil Hesione had made (and therefore was afterwards called Priam
Priam

In Greek mythology, Priam was the king of Troy during the Trojan War and youngest son of Laomedon. Modern scholars derive his name from the Luwian compound Priimuua, which means "exceptionally courageous"....
, from priamai 'to buy'). Telamon took Hesione as a war prize and married her; they had a son, Teucer
Teucer

In Greek mythology Teucer, also Teucrus or Teucris , was the son of King Telamon of Salamis Island and his second wife Hesione, daughter of King Laomedon of Troy....
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Laomedon is also the name of the son of Heracles
Heracles

In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles meaning "glory of Hera", or "Glorious through Hera" Alcides or Alcaeus " was a hero, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson of Perseus....
 and Meline
Meline

Meline may refer to:...
, daughter of Thespius
Thespius

Thespius was a legendary king of Thespiae, Boeotia. His life account is considered part of Greek mythology....
.