Laodamia

[ ley-od-uh-mahy-uh ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.

1. a daughter of Acastus who killed herself so that she could join her husband, Protesilaus, in the underworld.
2. (in the Iliad ) the mother, by Zeus, of Sarpedon.

Example Sentences

The 68th poem attempts to weave into one texture his own love of Lesbia, and the romance of Laodamia and Protesilaus.

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Both Paris is there, and the adultress, the far-famed cause of guilt: and Laodamia, who attends her husband in death.

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An oval face becomes a parting upon the unadorned head: Laodamia had her hair thus arranged.

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In my own copy of Wordsworth I have been careful to mark the original reading in justice to the original Laodamia.

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Permitted to return to life for a few hours to see his wife Laodamia.

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