Laodamia
Americannoun
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a daughter of Acastus who killed herself so that she could join her husband, Protesilaus, in the underworld.
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(in theIliad ) the mother, by Zeus, of Sarpedon.
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Greek mythology also gave us Laodamia, who, devastated after the death of her husband in the Trojan war, had a bronze likeness made of him.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 27, 2017
They had Hermes bring him up from the dead to see once again his deeply mourning wife, Laodamia.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
But this woman brought forth three children to warlike Bellerophon, Isandrus, Hippolochus, and Laodamia.
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois
It is only when writing in the person of a woman—as in the Phyllis or Laodamia of the Heroides—that he allows himself any approach to tenderness.
From Latin Literature by Mackail, J. W. (John William)
Of the former kind are the corrections in "Laodamia."
From The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 by Various
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