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
He even at a later date set about a translation of the Aeneid of Virgil, but the one permanent result of the classic movement in his mind is Laodamia.
From Studies in Literature by Morley, John
We might allude in particular, for examples of what we mean, to the lines on a Picture by Claude Lorraine, and to the exquisite poem, entitled Laodamia.
From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by Hazlitt, William
Methinks I am sick of everything he wrote, except his Laodamia.
From P.'s Correspondence (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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