Laomedon

Family: Troy · Role: king of Troy · First appears: Euripides, The Trojan Captives — Scene 6

Life events

• Heracles kills Laomedon and devastates Ilion’s battlements.(Euripides, The Trojan Captives — Scene 6 · 📍 Ilion)
  • With: Heracles
  • “Those who with dextrous hand could wing Th’ unerring shaft, till slaughter reached thy head, Laomedon, thou perjured king: Those battlements which Phœbus’ self did rear The victor wasted with devouring flame;”

Euripides, The Trojan Captives — Scene 6

• enemies with Heracles “Selected from each ship, he led Those who with dextrous hand could wing Th’ unerring shaft, till slaughter reached thy head, Laomedon, thou perjured king:”
• with Apollo (Phoebus built the battlements of Laomedon’s Troy.) “Those battlements which Phœbus’ self did rear The victor wasted with devouring flame;”

Also listed in Troy — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.