Laomedon
Family: Trojans · Role: king · First appears: BOOK III
🌐 Also appears in: Greek Mythology — A Family Orrery (as Laomedon) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Laomedon)
In Book III, Priam is identified as a child of Laomedon. In Book V, Laomedon is described as an enemy of Hercules, having refused him the horses he had come to fetch. By Book VII, Neptune and Apollo are said to have built a wall for him.
In Book XV, Lampus is named as Laomedon’s son and noted for his valour. Book XX names Ilus as Laomedon’s father and lists Tithonus, Priam, Lampus, Clytius and Hiketaon as his children; Book VI had also described Bucolion as his eldest son and a bastard. In Book XXI, Neptune and Apollo say that they served Laomedon for a year at an agreed wage and worked under his orders.
Relationship record
BOOK III
- child: Priam “Idaeus brought the mixing-bowl and the cups of gold. He went up to Priam and said, “Son of Laomedon, the princes of the Trojans and Achaeans bid you come down on to the plain and swear to a solemn covenant.”
BOOK V
- enemies with Hercules “He would not give your father the horses which he had come so far to fetch.”
BOOK VI
- child: Bucolion (Laomedon is Bucolion's father.) “Bucolion was eldest son to Laomedon, but he was a bastard.”
BOOK VII
- with Neptune (interaction) “the one which Phoebus Apollo and myself built with so much labour for Laomedon.”
- with Apollo (interaction) “the one which Phoebus Apollo and myself built with so much labour for Laomedon.”
BOOK XV
- child: Lampus “Lampus was son of Laomedon and noted for his valour”
BOOK XX
- parent: Ilus (Ilus is Laomedon’s father.) “Ilus begat Laomedon”
- child: Tithonus (Laomedon is Tithonus’s father.) “Laomedon begat Tithonus, Priam, Lampus, Clytius, and Hiketaon of the stock of Mars.”
- child: Priam (Laomedon is Priam’s father.) “Laomedon begat Tithonus, Priam, Lampus, Clytius, and Hiketaon of the stock of Mars.”
- child: Lampus (Laomedon is Lampus’s father.) “Laomedon begat Tithonus, Priam, Lampus, Clytius, and Hiketaon of the stock of Mars.”
- child: Clytius (Laomedon is Clytius’s father.) “Laomedon begat Tithonus, Priam, Lampus, Clytius, and Hiketaon of the stock of Mars.”
- child: Hiketaon (Laomedon is Hiketaon’s father.) “Laomedon begat Tithonus, Priam, Lampus, Clytius, and Hiketaon of the stock of Mars.”
BOOK XXI
- servant: Neptune “we came from Jove’s house and worked for Laomedon a whole year at a stated wage and he gave us his orders.”
- servant: Apollo “I built the Trojans the wall about their city, so wide and fair that it might be impregnable, while you, Phoebus, herded cattle for him in the dales of many valleyed Ida.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Iliad. Made with Rho MD.