Laodamas
Family: Thebes · Role: son of Eteocles · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 39
Laodamas was the son of Eteocles. After Eteocles and Polynices killed each other, the kingdom passed to Laodamas, with Creon ruling as his guardian.
In the battle at Glisas, where the Argives defeated the Thebans, Laodamas fled with most of the Thebans. In the fighting, he slew Ægialeus, son of Adrastus.
Relationship record
Life events
- Polynices and Eteocles killed each other; Laodamas inherited, with Creon as guardian.(Book 9 · Chapter 5)
- With: Polynices Eteocles Creon
- “And on his return he quarrelled with Eteocles, and went into exile a second time. And having begged of Adrastus a force to restore him, he lost his army and challenged Eteocles to single combat. And he and his brother killed each other, and as the kingdom devolved upon Laodamas the son of Eteocles, Creon the son of Menœceus ruled as guardian for the boy.”
- Laodamas and most Thebans fled after the Argives defeated the Thebans at Glisas.(Book 9 · Chapter 8 · 📍 Glisas)
- “When the Thebans were beaten in battle by the Argives at Glisas, most of them fled with Laodamas the son of Eteocles”
Book 1 · Chapter 39
- parent: Eteocles “Laodamas the son of Eteocles”
- guardian: Creon “Creon, who was at that time the ruler at Thebes (being Regent for Laodamas the son of Eteocles)”
Book 9 · Chapter 5
- parent: Eteocles (Parent-to-child direction.) “as the kingdom devolved upon Laodamas the son of Eteocles”
- guardian: Creon (Creon was guardian for Laodamas.) “Creon the son of Menœceus ruled as guardian for the boy”
- with Ægialeus (killed in battle) “Laodamas slew in the action Ægialeus the son of Adrastus,”
Book 9 · Chapter 8
- parent: Eteocles “most of them fled with Laodamas the son of Eteocles”
Book 9 · Chapter 10
- guardian: Creon “both daughters of Creon, who ruled as guardian of Laodamas the son of Eteocles.”
- parent: Eteocles “Laodamas the son of Eteocles.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.