In Greek mythology, the name Laodocus (; Ancient Greek: Λαόδοκος or Λαοδόκος means "receiving the people") or Leodocus (Λεωδόκος) may refer to:
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Laodocus, the son of Apollo and Phthia, brother of Dorus and Polypoetes; all three were killed by Aetolus, son of Endymion.
[Apollodorus, 1.7.6]
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Laodocus or Leodocus,
[Apollonius Rhodius, 1.119] one of the Argonauts, son of Bias and Pero, brother of Talaus and Areius.[Valerius Flaccus, 1.358][ Argonautica Orphica 149]
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Laodocus, a warrior in the army of the Seven against Thebes, who won the javelin-throwing match at the funeral games of Opheltes.
[Apollodorus, 3.6.4]
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Laodocus or Ladocus, a prince of Tegea as son of King Echemus of Arcadia and Timandra, daughter of Tyndareus and Leda.
[Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 23(a)31–35][Pausanias, 8.44.1] The suburb Ladoceia in Arcadia was named after him.
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Laodocus, a Troy prince and an illegitimate son of King Priam of Troy.
[Apollodorus, 3.12.5]
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Laodocus, son of Antenor
[Homer, Iliad 4.87] and Theano, thus a brother of Crino,[Pausanias, 10.27.4] Acamas,[Homer, Iliad 2.823, 11.60 & 12.100; Apollodorus, Epitome 3.34] Agenor,[Homer, Iliad 11.59, 21.545 & 579] Antheus,[Tzetzes on Lycophron, 134] Archelochus,[Apollodorus, Epitome 3.34; Homer, Iliad 2.823, 12.100 & 14.464] Coön,[Homer, Iliad 11.248 & 256, 19.53] Demoleon,[Homer, Iliad 20.395] Eurymachus,[Pausanias, 10.27.3] Glaucus,[Virgil, Aeneid 6.484; Apollodorus, Epitome 5.21; Dictys Cretensis, 4.7; Pausanias, 10.27.3] Helicaon,[Homer, Iliad 3.123] Iphidamas,[Homer, Iliad 11.221 & 261; Pausanias, 4.36.4 & 5.19.4] Laodamas,[Homer, Iliad 15.516] Medon,[Virgil, Aeneid 6.484] Polybus[Homer, Iliad 11.59] and Thersilochus. Athena assumed Laodocus' shape to persuade Pandarus to break the truce between the Greeks and the Trojans.[Homer, Iliad 4.85] He is possibly the same as the Laodocus killed by Diomedes.[Quintus Smyrnaeus, 11.85]
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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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Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853-1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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Dictys Cretensis , from The Trojan War. The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and Dares Phrygius translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer, Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica translated by Mozley, J H. Loeb Classical Library Volume 286. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. Online version at theio.com.
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Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonauticon. Otto Kramer. Leipzig. Teubner. 1913. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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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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Virgil, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
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Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. Online version at theio.com
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Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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John Tzetzes, Allegories of the Iliad translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015.