In Greek mythology, Laothoe (Ancient Greek: Λαοθόη) can refer to the following women:
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Laothoe, consort of King Porthaon of Calydon and mother of Sterope, Stratonice and Eurythemiste.
[Hesiod, Ehoiai . 26.7 ]
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Laothoe or Antianeira,
[ Argonautica Orphica 127 ff.] daughter of Menetus (Meretus), mother of the Argonauts Eurytus (Eurytus) and Echion by Hermes.[ Argonautica Orphica 135]
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Laothoe, a Thespiae princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede
[Apollodorus, 2.4.10; John Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.222] or by one of his many wives.[Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.2] When Heracles hunted and ultimately slayed the Cithaeronian lion,[Apollodorus, 2.4.9] Laothoe with her other sisters, except for one,[Pausanias, 9.27.6; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51] all laid with the hero in a night,[Pausanias, 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661)] a week[Athenaeus, 13.4 with Herodorus as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51] or for 50 days[Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224] as what their father strongly desired it to be.[Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3] Laothoe bore Heracles a son, Antiphus.[Apollodorus, 2.7.8]
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Laothoe, mother of Thestor by Idmon.
[Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.139]
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Laothoe, a consort of Priam, king of Troy, and mother of Lycaon and sometimes Polydorus. Her father was Altes, king of the Leleges.
[Homer, Iliad 21.85 & 22.48]
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Laothoe, wife of the Troy elder Clytius.
[Tzetzes, Homerica 437 ff.]
Notes
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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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
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Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
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Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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Hesiod, Catalogue of Women from Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914. Online version at theio.com
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Homer, Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
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Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. . Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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The Orphic Argonautica, translated by Jason Colavito. Copyright 2011. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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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. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
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Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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John Tzetzes, Book of Histories, Book II-IV translated by Gary Berkowitz from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. Online version at theio.com