Laothoe

In Greek mythology, Laothoe (Ancient Greek: Λαοθόη) can refer to the following women:

Laothoe, consort of King Porthaon of Calydon and mother of Sterope, Stratonice and Eurythemiste.[1]
Laothoe or Antianeira,[2] daughter of Menetus (Meretus), mother of the Argonauts Erytus (Eurytus) and Echion by Hermes.[3]
Laothoe, one of the daughters of Thespius and Megamede. She bore Heracles a son, Antiphus.[4]
Laothoe, mother of Thestor by Idmon.[5]
Laothoe, a consort of Priam, king of Troy, and mother of Lycaon. Her father was Altes, king of the Leleges.[6]
Laothoe, wife of the Trojan elder Clytius.[7]

References

Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 26. 7 Merkelbach & West (1967).
Argonautica Orphica, 127 ff
Argonautica Orphica, 135
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.7.8.
Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1. 139

Once more, deadly fate
has placed me in your hands.  I do believe
Father Zeus must hate me, to give me to you
for a second time.  My mother, Laothoë,
daughter of old Altes, gave birth to me   
to live a shortened life.  Altes rules over
war-loving Leleges, in steep Pedasus,
by the river Satnioeis.  His daughter
married Priam, who has many other wives.
She had two sons.  Now you'll have slaughtered both.

Homer, Iliad, 21. 85; 22. 48

Tzetzes, Homerica, 437ff

Bibliography

Merkelbach, R.; West, M.L. (1967), Fragmenta Hesiodea, Oxford, ISBN 0-19-814171-8.

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