Laodice

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Lāŏdĭcē, ēs, f., = Λαοδίκη.

A daughter of Priam, who married Helicāon, son of the Thracian king, Antenor, Hyg. Fab. 80.—
II A woman, otherwise unknown, Ov. H. 19, 135.—
III The wife of Antiochus, Val. Max. 9, 14, 1 ext.

Lao'dice

(Λαοδίκη).

1. A Hyperborean maiden, who, together with Hyperoche, and five companions, was sent from the country of the Hyperboreans to carry sacrifices to the island of Delos. (Hdt. 4.33.)

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2. A nymph, by whom Phoroneus became the father of Apis and Niobe. (Apollod. 2.1.1.)

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3. A daughter of Cinyras, and the mother of Stymplhalus and Pereus. (Apollod. 3.9.1, 14.3.)

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4. A daughter of Priam and Hecabe, and the wife of Helicaon. (Hom. Il. 3.123; Paus. 10.26.) According to another tradition, she was the beloved of Acamas, the son of Theseus, who, with Diomedes, went as ambassador to Troy, and by whom she became the mother of Munitus. (Parthen. Erot. 16.) On the death of this son, Laodice, in her grief, leaped down a precipice (Lycoph. 497), or was swallowed up by the earth. (Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 513, 547.) Pausanias (l.c.) saw her represented in the Lesche of Delphi, among the captive Trojan women. Hyginus (Fab.]01) calls her the wife of Telephus.

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5. A daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra (Hom. Il. 9.146), but the tragic poets call her Electra. (Hesych. s. v.; Electra.)

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6. A daughter of Agapenor, who founded a sanctuary of the Paphian Aphrodite at Tegea, and sent to Athena Alea a peplus front Cyprus. (Paus. 8.5.2, 53.2.) [L.S]

Lao'dice

(Λαοδίκη).

1. Wife of Antiochus, a general of distinction in the service of Philip of Macedon, and mother of Seleucus, the founder of the Syrian monarchy. It was pretended, in consequence of a dream which she had, that Apollo was the real father of her child. (Just. 15.4.) No less than five cities were founded by Seleucus in different parts of his dominions, which bore in her honour the name of Laodiceia. (Appian, App. Syr. 57.)

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2. Wife of Antiochus II. Theos, king of Syria, and mother of Seleucus Callinicus. According to Eusebius (Euseb. Arm. p. 164), she was a daughter of Achaeus, probably the same as the father of Antiochis, who was mother of Attalus I., king of Pergamus. (See Clinton. F. H. iii. pp. 310, 401.) The statement of Polyaenus (8.50), that she was a daughter of Antiochus Soter, though followed by Froelich (Ann. Reg. Syriac. p. 26), is probably erroneous. (See Niebuhr, Kl. Schrift. p. 257; Droysen, Hellenism. ii. p. 317.) By the peace concluded between Antiochus and Ptolemy Philadelphus (B. C. 248), it was agreed that the former should marry Berenice, the sister of the Egyptian monarch, and should not only put away Laodice, but declare her children illegitimate. Antiochus complied for a time, but as soon as he heard of the death of Ptolemy he hastened to recal Laodice and her children. The latter, however, either mistrusting her husband's constancy, and apprehensive of a second change, or in revenge for the slight already put upon her, took an early opportunity to put an end to his life by poison (B. C. 246); at the same time artfully concealing his death until she had taken all necessary measures, and was able to establish her son Seleucus at once upon the throne. Her next step was to order the execution of her rival Berenice and her infant son, who were put to death in the sacred grove of Daphne, where they had taken refuge. An incidental notice, preserved to us by Athenaeus (xiii. p. 593), shows that these were far from being the only victims sacrificed to her vengeance. But she did not long retain the power acquired by so many crimes. The people of Syria broke out into revolt; and Ptolemy Euergetes having invaded the kingdom, to avenge his sister's fate, overran almost the whole country. According to Appian, laodice herself fell into his hands, and was put to death; Plutarch, on the contrary (De Fratern. Amor. 18, p. 489), represents her as surviving this war, and afterwards stimulating her youngest son, Antiochus Hierax, to make war on his brother Selencus. (Appian, App. Syr. 65, 66; Just. 27.1; Polyaen. 13.50; Hieronym. ad Daniel. xi.; V. Max. 9.14, ext. 91; Plin. Nat. 7.10.) Besides these two sons, Laodice had two daughters, one of whom was married to Mithridates IV., king of Pontus, the other to Ariarathes, king of Cappadocia. (Euseb. Arm. p. 164.) Both of these are called by different authors Stratonice; but Niebuhr has conjectured (Kl. Schrift. p. 261) that only one of them really bore that name, and the other that of Laodice.

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3. Wife of Seleucus Callinicus, was, according to the express statement of Polybius (4.51, viii. 22), a sister of Andromachus, the father of Achaeus. It seems not improbable that she was a niece of the preceding, but Niebuhr (Kl. Scltrift. p. 263), who calls her so, has erroneously made her daughter of Andromachus, instead of his sister, and Droysen (Hellenism. vol. ii. p. 347) has fallen into the same mistake. Great confusion certainly exists concerning the two, but there seems no reason to doubt the authority of Polybius; and we have no evidence that the Achaeus who is mentioned by Eusebius as father of No. 2, was the same as the father of Andromachus. She was the mother of Seleucus Ceraunus and Antiochus the Great.

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4. Wife of Antiochus the Great, was a daughter of Mithridates IV., king of Pontus, and granddaughter of No. 2. She was married to Antiochus soon after his accession, about B. C. 222, and proclaimed queen by him at Antioch before he set out on his expedition against Molon. The birth of her eldest son, Antiochus, took place during the absence of the king on that exhibition. (Plb. 5.43, 55.) She was the mother of four other sons, and four daughters, who will be found enumerated under Antiochus III.

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5. Wife of Achaeus, the cousin and adversary of Antiochus the Great, was a sister of the preceding, being also a daughter of Mithridates IV., king of Pontus. (Polyb. viii 22.) When Achaeus fell into the power of Antiochus (B. C. 214) Laodice was left in possession of the citadel of Sardis, in which she held out for a time, but was quickly compelled by the dissensions among her own troops to surrender to Antiochus. (Id. 8.23.) Polybius incidentally mentions that this princess was brought up before her marriage at Selge, in Pisidia, under the care of Logbasis, a citizen of that place. (Id. 5.74.)

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6. Daughter of Antiochus the Great by his wife Laodice [No. 4]. She was married to her eldest brother Antiochus, who died in his father's lifetime, B. C. 195. (Appian, App. Syr. 4; Liv. 35.15.) Froelich supposes her to have been afterwards married to her younger brother Seleucus IV., and to have been the mother of Demetrius Soter but there appears to be no authority for this statement.

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7. Daughter of Seleucus IV. Philopator, was married to Perseus, king of Macedonia. (Plb. 26.7; Liv. 42.12; Inscr. Del. apud Marm. Arundel. No. 41.) The marriage is spoken of by Polybius in the year B. C. 177, as having then lately taken place.

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8. Daughter of Antiochus IV. Epiphanes, and therefore first cousin of the preceding. She is first mentioned as being taken to Rome by Heracleides, when he determined to set up the claim of the impostor Alexander Balas against Demetrius Soter, who at that time occupied the throne of Syria. In the decree of the senate in their favour Laodice is associated with her supposed brother Alexander, and it is probable that she was proclaimed queen together with him after the defeat of Demetrius. (Plb. 33.14, 16.) It seems much more likely, therefore, that the " Laodice regina," mentioned in the epitome of Livy (lib. 1.) as being subsequently put to death by Alexander's minister Ammonius, is the person in question, than the wife of Demetrius (as supposed by Visconti, Iconographie Grecque, tom. ii. p. 324, and Millingen, Ancient Coins of Cities and Kings, p. 76), of whom we have otherwise no knowledge.

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9 and 10. Two daughters of Antiochus Sidetes, otherwise unknown, both bore the name of Laodice. (Euseb. Arm. p. 167.)

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11. Wife of Ariarathes V., king of Cappadocia, by whom she had six sons, all of whom, except the youngest, she successively put to death, in order that she herself might continue to exercise the supreme power in their name without interference. At length the people revolted by her cruelties, rose in insurrection against her, and put an end to her life. (Just. 37.1 )

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12. Wife and also sister of Mithridates Eupator (commonly called the Great), king of Pontus. During the absence of her husband, and deceived by a report of his death, she gave free scope to her amours; and, alarmed for the consequences, on his return attempted his life by poison. Her designs were, however, betrayed to Mithridates, who immediately put her to death. (Just. 37.3.)

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13. Another sister of Mithridates Eupator, married to Ariarathes VI., king of Cappadocia. After the death of her husband, who was assassinated by Gordius, at the instigation of Mithridates, in order to avoid a similar fate for herself and her two sons, she threw herself into the arms of Nicomedes, king of Bithynia, whom she married, and put in possession of Cappadocia. The revolutions that followed are related under Ariarathes. After the death of her two sons, she joined with Nicomedes in the attempt to establish an impostor upon the throne of Cappadocia, and even went to Rome to bear witness in person that she had had three sons by Ariarathes; notwithstanding which, the claim of the pretender was rejected by the senate. (Just. 38.1, 2.)

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14. A queen of the Galadeni, mentioned by Josephus as being engaged in war with the Parthians, when Antiochus X., king of Syria, came to her assistance, but was killed in battle. (J. AJ 13.13.4.) [E.H.B]

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