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Laodice

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Canonical name
Laodice
Disambiguator
None
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Character
Scope
Individual
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No editorial note published.

Aliases

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fairest of Priam’s daughters

Epithet · Direct

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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palace of Priam1 observation
·Direct

Laodice accompanies Hecuba to Hector at Priam’s palace.

See evidence text
“When Hector got there, his fond mother came up to him with Laodice the fairest of her daughters”

Claims

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·Disguised

Iris borrows the likeness of Laodice, Helicaon’s wife and the fairest of Priam’s daughters.

See evidence text
“in the form of her sister-inlaw, wife of the son of Antenor, for Helicaon, son of Antenor, had married Laodice, the fairest of Priam’s daughters”
·Direct

Laodice is described as the fairest of Hecuba’s daughters.

See evidence text
“Laodice the fairest of her daughters”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

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·Direct
“Helicaon, son of Antenor, had married Laodice, the fairest of Priam’s daughters”

Passage preview

Book 3 · Passage 11

Meanwhile Iris went to Helen in the form of her sister-inlaw, wife of the son of Antenor, for Helicaon, son of Antenor, had married Laodice, the fairest of Priam’s daughters. She found her in her own room, working at a great web of purple linen, on which she was embroidering the battles between Trojans and Achaeans, that Mars had made them fight for her sake. Iris then came close up to her and said, ‘Come hither, child, and see the strange doings of the Trojans and Achaeans. Till now they have been warring upon the plain, mad with lust of battle, but now they have left off fighting, and are leaning upon their shields, sitting still with their spears planted beside them. Alexandrus and Menelaus are going to fight about yourself, and you are to be the wife of him who is the victor.’