Laodice

Family: Arcadian genealogy · Role: daughter of Agapenor · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 5

Laodice was the daughter of Agapenor, and in Book 8, Chapter 5, she sent a robe to Tegea for Athene Alea. By Chapter 53, she had erected a temple near Aphrodite there.

In Book 10, Chapter 26, Laodice was the wife of Helicaon, son of Antenor. The account says the Greeks apparently spared her from violence and slavery: “it seems probable enough that the Greeks let her go.”

Relationship record

Life events

• Laodice erected a temple near Paphian Aphrodite.(Book 8 · Chapter 53 · 📍 Tegea)
  • “And one near to Paphian Aphrodite, which was erected by Laodice”
• The Greeks apparently spared Laodice from violence and slavery.(Book 10 · Chapter 26)
  • “it seems probable enough that the Greeks let her go.”

Book 8 · Chapter 5

• parent: Agapenor “And afterwards Laodice, the daughter of Agapenor, sent to Tegea a robe for Athene Alea”
• with Athene Alea (interaction) “And afterwards Laodice, the daughter of Agapenor, sent to Tegea a robe for Athene Alea”

Book 8 · Chapter 53

• parent: Agapenor “which was erected by Laodice, who was, as I have stated before, a daughter of that Agapenor who led the Arcadians to Troy”
• with Aphrodite (interaction) “one near to Paphian Aphrodite, which was erected by Laodice”

Book 10 · Chapter 26

• married with Helicaon “Laodice was the wife of Antenor’s son Helicaon”
• with Aeneas (No direct relation involving Laodice and Aeneas is stated; omitted.) “And near the painting of the horse by Nestor’s side is Neoptolemus killing Elasus, whoever he was; his dying agony is well depicted: and Astynous, who is mentioned by Lescheos, has fallen on to his knee, and Neoptolemus is in the act of smiting him with the sword.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.