Hesione

Family: Troy · Role: daughter of Laomedon · First appears: Fable 96

Life events

• Neptune’s punishment forces Laomedon to chain Hesione to rocks for a sea monster.(Fable96)
  • With: Laomedon Neptune
  • “Nor is this punishment sufficient: the daughter of the king, is also demanded for a sea monster. Chained to the rugged rocks”
• Hercules rescues Hesione from the sea monster.(Fable96)
  • With: Hercules
  • “Alcides delivers her”
• Telamon obtains Hesione, who is given to him in marriage.(Fable96)
  • With: Telamon
  • “Nor does Telamon, a sharer in the warfare, come off without honour; and he obtains Hesione, who is given to him.”

Fable 96

• parent: Laomedon (Hesione is identified as Laomedon's daughter.) “Laomedon is then obliged to expose his daughter to a sea monster, in order to appease the God. Hercules delivers her; and Laomedon defrauds him likewise of the horses which he has promised him. In revenge, Hercules plunders the city of Troy, and carries off Hesione”
• with Hercules (Hercules rescues Hesione.) “Chained to the rugged rocks, Alcides delivers her, and demands the promised reward”
• married with Telamon (Hesione is given in marriage to Telamon.) “Hesione, whom he gives in marriage to his companion Telamon.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.