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Laomedon

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Canonical name
Laomedon
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None
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Character
Scope
Individual
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Aliases

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Claims

3
·Reported

Sarpedon says Laomedon refused due payment to Hercules and withheld the horses Hercules had travelled to fetch.

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Laomedon’s folly in refusing payment to one who had served him well. He would not give your father the horses which he had come so far to fetch.
·Reported

Neptune says that he and Apollo built a wall with great labour for Laomedon.

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built with so much labour for Laomedon
·Reported

Neptune says Laomedon withheld the gods’ wages, abused them, and threatened to bind, sell, and cut off the ears of both labourers.

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mighty Laomedon robbed us of all our hire and sent us off with nothing but abuse. He threatened to bind us hand and foot and sell us over into some distant island. He tried, moreover, to cut off the ears of both of us, so we went away in a rage, furious about the payment he had promised us, and yet withheld

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·Direct
Son of Laomedon
·Direct
Lampus was son of Laomedon
·Remembered
Ilus begat Laomedon
·Remembered
worked for Laomedon a whole year at a stated wage

Passage preview

Book 3 · Passage 23

Meanwhile the heralds were bringing the holy oath-offerings through the city—two lambs and a goatskin of wine, the gift of earth; and 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. Alexandrus and Menelaus are to fight for Helen in single combat, that she and all her wealth may go with him who is the victor. We are to swear to a solemn covenant of peace whereby we others shall dwell here in Troy, while the Achaeans return to Argos and the land of the Achaeans.’