{{Short description|Mythological characters}} In Greek mythology, the name '''Laodocus''' ({{IPAc-en|l|eɪ|ˈ|ɒ|d|ə|k|ə|s}}; Ancient Greek: Λαόδοκος or Λαοδόκος means "receiving the people") or '''Leodocus''' (Λεωδόκος) may refer to:
*Laodocus, the Aetolian son of Apollo and Phthia, brother of Dorus and Polypoetes; all three were killed by Aetolus, son of Endymion.<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.7.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=1:chapter=7&highlight=Laodocus 1.7.6]</ref> *Laodocus or Leodocus,<ref>Apollonius Rhodius, 1.119</ref> one of the Argonauts, son of Bias and Pero, brother of Talaus and Areius.<ref>Valerius Flaccus, 1.358</ref><ref>''Argonautica Orphica'' 149</ref> *Laodocus, a warrior in the army of the Seven against Thebes, who won the javelin-throwing match at the funeral games of Opheltes.<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.6.4&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=3:chapter=6&highlight=Laodocus 3.6.4]</ref> *Laodocus or Ladocus, a prince of Tegea as son of King Echemus of Arcadia and Timandra, daughter of Tyndareus and Leda.<ref name="Cat">Hesiod, ''Ehoiai'' fr. 23(a)31–35</ref><ref name=":2">Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+8.44.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=8:chapter=44&highlight=Ladocus 8.44.1]</ref> The suburb Ladoceia in Arcadia was named after him.<ref name=":2" /> *Laodocus, a Trojan prince and an illegitimate son of King Priam of Troy.<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.12.5&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=3:chapter=12&highlight=Laodocus 3.12.5]</ref> *Laodocus, son of Antenor<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 4.87</ref> and Theano, thus a brother of Crino,<ref>Pausanias, 10.27.4</ref> Acamas,<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 2.823, 11.60 & 12.100; Apollodorus, Epitome 3.34</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Tzetzes, John|title=Allegories of the Iliad|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library|year=2015|isbn=978-0-674-96785-4|location=Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|pages=61, ''Prologue'' 806–807, p. 219, 11.44–46|translator-last=Goldwyn|translator-first=Adam|translator-last2=Kokkini|translator-first2=Dimitra}}</ref> Agenor,<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Tzetzes, John|title=Allegories of the Iliad|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library|year=2015|isbn=978-0-674-96785-4|location=Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|pages=219, 11.44–46|translator-last=Goldwyn|translator-first=Adam|translator-last2=Kokkini|translator-first2=Dimitra}}</ref><ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 11.59, 21.545 & 579</ref> Antheus,<ref>Tzetzes on Lycophron, 134</ref> Archelochus,<ref>Apollodorus, Epitome 3.34; Homer, ''Iliad'' 2.823, 12.100 & 14.464</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Tzetzes, John|title=Allegories of the Iliad|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library|year=2015|isbn=978-0-674-96785-4|location=Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|pages=61, ''Prologue'' 806–807|translator-last=Goldwyn|translator-first=Adam|translator-last2=Kokkini|translator-first2=Dimitra}}</ref> Coön,<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 11.248 & 256, 19.53</ref> Demoleon,<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 20.395</ref> Eurymachus,<ref>Pausanias, 10.27.3</ref> Glaucus,<ref>Virgil, ''Aeneid'' 6.484; Apollodorus, Epitome 5.21; Dictys Cretensis, 4.7; Pausanias, 10.27.3</ref> Helicaon,<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 3.123</ref> Iphidamas,<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 11.221 & 261; Pausanias, 4.36.4 & 5.19.4</ref> Laodamas,<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 15.516</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Tzetzes, John|title=Allegories of the Iliad|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library|year=2015|isbn=978-0-674-96785-4|location=Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|pages=283, 15.193|translator-last=Goldwyn|translator-first=Adam|translator-last2=Kokkini|translator-first2=Dimitra}}</ref> Medon,<ref name=":1">Virgil, ''Aeneid'' 6.484</ref> Polybus<ref name=":0" /><ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 11.59</ref> and Thersilochus.<ref name=":1" /> Athena assumed Laodocus' shape to persuade Pandarus to break the truce between the Greeks and the Trojans.<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 4.85</ref> He is possibly the same as the Laodocus killed by Diomedes.<ref>Quintus Smyrnaeus, 11.85</ref>
==Notes== {{Reflist}}
== References == * Apollodorus, ''The Library'' with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website]. * Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica'' translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853–1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. [https://topostext.org/work/126 Online version at the Topos Text Project.] * Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica''. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0227 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library]. * Dictys Cretensis'', from The Trojan War.'' ''The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian'' translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966. [https://topostext.org/work/152 Online version at the Topos Text Project.] *Gaius Valerius Flaccus, ''Argonautica'' translated by Mozley, J H. Loeb Classical Library Volume 286. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. [http://www.theoi.com/Text/ValeriusFlaccus1.html Online version at theio.com.] * Gaius Valerius Flaccus, ''Argonauticon.'' Otto Kramer. Leipzig. Teubner. 1913. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2007.01.0058 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.] * Homer, ''The Iliad'' with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. {{ISBN|978-0674995796|}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0134 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] * Homer, ''Homeri Opera'' in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. {{ISBN|978-0198145318|}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0133 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library]. * ''The Orphic Argonautica'', translated by Jason Colavito. © Copyright 2011. [https://topostext.org/work/549 Online version at the Topos Text Project.] * Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'' with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. {{ISBN|0-674-99328-4}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library] * Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library]. * Publius Vergilius Maro, ''Aeneid.'' Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0054%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] * Publius Vergilius Maro, ''Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics''. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0055 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library]. *Quintus Smyrnaeus, ''The Fall of Troy'' translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. [http://www.theoi.com/Text/QuintusSmyrnaeus1.html Online version at theio.com] * Quintus Smyrnaeus, ''The Fall of Troy''. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0490 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library]. * Tzetzes, John, ''Allegories of the Iliad'' translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015.
{{Greek mythology index}}
Category:Children of Apollo Category:Argonauts Category:Princes in Greek mythology Category:Children of Priam Category:Trojans Category:People of the Trojan War Category:Characters in the Argonautica Category:Mythological Aetolians