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{{short description|Set of mythological Greek characters}}
'''Laodamas''' ({{IPAc-en|l|eɪ|ˈ|ɒ|d|ə|m|ə|s}}; {{langx|grc|Λᾱοδάμᾱς<ref>[[genitive case|gen.]] Λᾱοδάμαντος</ref>|Lāodámās|lit=tamer of the people}}) refers to five different people in [[Greek mythology]].

* Laodamas, son of [[Eteocles]], inherited [[Ancient Thebes (Boeotia)|Thebes]] from his father.<ref name="Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9. 5. 13">[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], 9.5.13</ref> In one version of the myth (different from the one recounted in [[Sophocles]]' ''[[Antigone (Euripides)|Antigone]]''), he was responsible for the deaths of his aunts [[Antigone]] and [[Ismene]], whom he prosecuted for having buried [[Polynices]]. They sought refuge in the temple of [[Hera]], but Laodamas set fire to it and thus killed them.<ref>[[Ion of Chios]] in [[Sallust]]ius' [[argument (literature)|argumentum]] of [[Sophocles]]' ''[[Antigone (Sophocles)|Antigone]]''</ref> During the battle of the [[Epigoni]], he was killed by [[Alcmaeon (mythology)|Alcmaeon]] after he killed [[Aegialeus (king of Argos)|Aegialeus]].<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], 3.7.3</ref> Other sources state that he survived and fled to the [[Enchele]]ans in [[Illyria]],<ref>[[Herodotus]], 5.61.1; Pausanias, 9.5.13</ref> and subsequently led an expedition to [[Thessaly]].<ref>Pausanias, 9.8.6</ref>
* Laodamas, son of [[Antenor of Troy|Antenor]]<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' 15.516</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=[[Tzetzes|Tzetzes, John]]|title=Allegories of the Iliad|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library|year=2015|isbn=978-0-674-96785-4|location=Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|pages=283, 15.193|translator-last=Goldwyn|translator-first=Adam|translator-last2=Kokkini|translator-first2=Dimitra}}</ref> and [[Theano of Troy|Theano]], thus brother of [[Crino]],<ref>Pausanias, 10.27.4</ref> and numerous sons, including [[Acamas (son of Antenor)|Acamas]],<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 2.823, 11.60 & 12.100; Apollodorus, [[Epitome]] 3.34</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Tzetzes, John|title=Allegories of the Iliad|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library|year=2015|isbn=978-0-674-96785-4|location=Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|pages=61, ''Prologue'' 806–807, p. 219, 11.44–46|translator-last=Goldwyn|translator-first=Adam|translator-last2=Kokkini|translator-first2=Dimitra}}</ref> [[Agenor of Troy|Agenor]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Tzetzes, John|title=Allegories of the Iliad|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library|year=2015|isbn=978-0-674-96785-4|location=Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|pages=219, 11.44–46|translator-last=Goldwyn|translator-first=Adam|translator-last2=Kokkini|translator-first2=Dimitra}}</ref><ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 11.59, 21.545 & 579</ref> [[Antheus]],<ref>Tzetzes on [[Lycophron]], 134</ref> [[Archelochus]],<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 2.823, 12.100 & 14.464; Apollodorus, Epitome 3.34</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Tzetzes, John|title=Allegories of the Iliad|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library|year=2015|isbn=978-0-674-96785-4|location=Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|pages=61, ''Prologue'' 806–807|translator-last=Goldwyn|translator-first=Adam|translator-last2=Kokkini|translator-first2=Dimitra}}</ref> [[Coön]],<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 11.248 & 256, 19.53</ref> [[Demoleon]],<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 20.395</ref> [[Eurymachus]],<ref>Pausanias, 10.27.3</ref> [[Glaucus (mythology)|Glaucus]],<ref>[[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]'' 6.484; Apollodorus, Epitome 5.21; [[Dictys Cretensis]], 4.7; Pausanias, 10.27.3</ref> [[Helicaon]],<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 3.123</ref> [[Iphidamas]],<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 11.221 & 261; Pausanias, 4.36.4 & 5.19.4</ref> [[Laodocus]],<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 4.87</ref> [[Medon (mythology)|Medon]],<ref name=":1">Virgil, ''Aeneid'' 6.484</ref> [[Polybus (son of Antenor)|Polybus]]<ref name=":0" /><ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 11.59</ref> and [[Thersilochus]].<ref name=":1" /> Laodamas was a [[Troy|Trojan]] warrior killed by [[Ajax the Great|Ajax]].<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 15.516-517</ref>
*Laodamas, a [[Lycia]]n killed by [[Neoptolemus]] during the [[Trojan War]].<ref>[[Quintus Smyrnaeus]], 11.20</ref>
*Laodamas, son of [[Hector]] and [[Andromache]] and brother of [[Astyanax]].<ref>Dictys Cretensis, 3.20; Tzetzes, ''Homerica'' 319</ref> Unlike Astyanax, he was spared by the Greeks and stayed by his mother's side.<ref>Dictys Cretensis, 6.12</ref>
*Laodamas, a prince of [[Scheria]] as son of King [[Alcinous]] and [[Arete (mythology)|Arete]] of the [[Scheria|Phaecians]]. He was the brother of [[Nausicaa]],<ref>Homer, ''[[Odyssey]]'' 6.17, 6.212–213 & 8.464</ref> [[Halius]] and [[Clytoneus]]. Alcinous gives [[Odysseus]] Laodamas's chair, "whence he bade his son give place, valiant Laodamas, who sat next him and was his dearest".<ref>Homer, ''Odyssey'' 7.170</ref> He is the most handsome of the Phaeacians, and the best boxer in the games held in Odysseus's honor. He and his brothers were also the winners of the foot-racing contest.<ref>Homer, ''Odyssey'' 8.119-120</ref> Laodamas asks Odysseus to join in the games. After Odysseus is rebuked by [[Euryalus]], he challenges any of the Phaeacians save Laodamas.<ref>Homer, ''Odyssey'' 8.130-210</ref> Laodamas and Halius are the best dancers among the Phaeacians.<ref>Homer, ''Odyssey'' 8.370</ref><ref>Butcher, SH and Lang, A: ''The Odyssey of Homer'', Project Gutenberg</ref>

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== References ==

* [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], ''The Library'' with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. {{ISBN|0-674-99135-4}}. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
*[[Dictys Cretensis]]'', from The Trojan War.'' ''The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and [[Dares Phrygius|Dares the Phrygian]]'' translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer, Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966. [https://topostext.org/work/152 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* [[Herodotus]], ''The Histories'' with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920. {{ISBN|0-674-99133-8}}. [https://topostext.org/work/22 Online version at the Topos Text Project.] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0125 Greek text available at Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Homer]], [[Iliad|''The Iliad'']] with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. {{ISBN|978-0674995796|}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0134 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* Homer, ''Homeri Opera'' in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. {{ISBN|978-0198145318|}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0133 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
*Homer, [[Odyssey|''The Odyssey'']] with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. {{ISBN|978-0674995611|}}. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0136 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0135 Greek text available from the same website].
* [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. {{ISBN|0-674-99328-4}}. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
* Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.  [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
*[[Virgil|Publius Vergilius Maro]], ''Aeneid.'' Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0054%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* Publius Vergilius Maro, ''Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics''. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0055 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Quintus Smyrnaeus]], ''The Fall of Troy'' translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. [http://www.theoi.com/Text/QuintusSmyrnaeus1.html Online version at theio.com]
* Quintus Smyrnaeus, ''The Fall of Troy''. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0490 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[John Tzetzes|Tzetzes, John]], ''Allegories of the Iliad'' translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015.
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