Hesione

Family: Troy · Role: person · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.1

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Hesione)

Life events

• Hesione ransomed Podarces with her veil, after which he was called Priam.(Apollodorus, Library 2.6 · 📍 Ilium)
  • With: Priam
  • “So when he was being sold she took the veil from her head and gave it as a ransom; hence Podarces was called Priam.”

Apollodorus, Library 2.1

• married with Nauplius “according to Cercops she was Hesione”

Apollodorus, Library 2.5

• parent: Laomedon “if Laomedon would expose his daughter Hesione to be devoured by the sea monster”

Apollodorus, Library 2.6

• with Telamon (interaction) “he assigned Laomedon's daughter Hesione as a prize to Telamon”
• siblings with Priam “When she chose her brother Podarces”
• with Priam (Hesione ransomed Podarces.) “When she chose her brother Podarces, Hercules said that he must first be a slave and then be ransomed by her. So when he was being sold she took the veil from her head and gave it as a ransom”

Apollodorus, Library 3.12

• child: Teucer “by whom he had a son Teucer.”

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