Laodamia

American  

[ley-od-uh-mahy-uh] / leɪˌɒd əˈmaɪ ə /

noun

Classical Mythology.

1. a daughter of Acastus who killed herself so that she could join her husband, Protesilaus, in the underworld.

2. (in theIliad ) the mother, by Zeus, of Sarpedon.

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Example Sentences

They had Hermes bring him up from the dead to see once again his deeply mourning wife, Laodamia.

From Literature

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

With an inarticulate cry of joy, Laodamia beheld the beloved countenance of Protesilaus once more, and from his own lips heard the detailed account of his early death.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Wordsworth's works are rich in quotations suitable to the various phases of human life; and his name will be remembered not by his "Peter Bell," or his "Idiot Boy," or even his "Wagoner," but by his "Excursion," his "Laodamia," his "Tintern Abbey," some twenty of his sonnets, his "Daisy," and his "Yarrow Unvisited."

From Project Gutenberg

Heroines like Medea, Phaedra, Stheneboia, Aërope, Clytemnestra, perhaps fill the imagination more than those of the angelic or devoted type—Alcestis, who died to save her husband, Evadne and Laodamia, who could not survive theirs, and all the great list of virgin-martyrs.

From Project Gutenberg