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Corythus, a son of Paris and Oenone. He loved Helena and was beloved by her, and was therefore
killed by his own father (Parthen. Erot. 34). According to other traditions, Oenone
made use of him for the purpose of provoking the jealousy of Paris, and thereby
causing the ruin of Helena (Conon, Narrat. 22; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 57). Others again
call Corythus a son of Paris by Helena (Dictys. Cret. v. 5). There are four other
mythical personages of this name. (Ptolem. Heph. ii.; Ov. Met. v. 125, xii. 290;
Paus. i. 4.6)
Aesacus (Aisakos), a son of Priam and Arisbe, the daughter of Merops, from whom Aesacus learned the art of interpreting dreams. When Hecuba during her pregnancy with Paris dreamt that she was giving birth to a burning piece of wood which spread conflagration through the whole city, Aesacus explained this to mean, that she would give birth to a son who would be the ruin of the city, and accordingly recommended the exposure of the child after its birth. Aesacus himself was married to Asterope, the daughter of the river-god Cebren, who died early, and while he was lamenting her death he was changed into a bird (Apollod. iii. 12.5). Ovid (Met. xi. 750) relates his story differently. According to him, Aesacus was the son of Alexirhoe, the daughter of the river Granicus. He lived far from his father's court in the solitude of mounitainforests. Hesperia, however, the daughter of Cebren, kindled love in his heart, and on one occasion while he was pursuing her, she was stung by a viper and died. Aesacus in his grief threw himself into the sea and was changed by Thetis into an aquatic bird.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Sep 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Aesacus : Perseus Encyclopedia
Laocoon (Laokoon). A son of Priam and Hecuba, or, according to others,
of Antenor , and a priest of Apollo during the Trojan War. While offering, in
the exercise of his sacerdotal office, a bullock to render Poseidon propitious
to the Trojans, two enormous serpents issued from the sea, and, having first destroyed
his two sons, whom he vainly endeavoured to save, attacked Laocoon himself, and,
winding themselves round his body, crushed him to death in their folds. This dreadful
punishment was inflicted by the goddess Athene for the part Laocoon had taken
in endeavouring to dissuade the Trojans from admitting into Troy the famous wooden
horse, which the Greeks had consecrated to Athene.
An enduring fame has been gained for the story of Laocoon,
from its forming the subject of one of the most remarkable groups in sculpture
which time has spared to us. It represents the agonized father and his youthful
sons, one on each side of him, writhing and expiring in the folds of the serpents.
The figures are naked, the drapery that is introduced being used only to support
and fill up the composition. This superb work of art, which Pliny describes inaccurately
as consisting of only a single block of marble, originally ornamented the baths
of Titus, among the ruins of which it was found in the year 1506. The names of
the sculptors who executed it are also recorded. They are Agesander, Polydorus,
and Athenodorus, natives of Rhodes. Pliny says: "The Laocoon, which is in
the palace of the emperor Titus, is a work to be preferred to all others, either
in painting or sculpture. Those great artists, Agesander, Polydorus, and Athenodorus,
Rhodians, executed the principal figure and the sons and the wonderful folds of
the serpents out of one block of marble." This group is
justly considered, by all competent judges, to be a masterpiece of art. It combines,
in its class, all that sculpture requires, and both admits of, and may truly be
studied as, a canon. The subject is of the most affecting and interesting kind;
and the expression in every part of the figures reaches, but does not exceed,
the limits of propriety. Intense mental suffering is portrayed in the countenances,
while the physical strength of all the three figures is evidently sinking under
the irresistible power of the huge reptiles wreathed around their exhausted limbs.
One son, in whose side a serpent has fixed his deadly fangs, seems to be fainting;
the other, not yet bitten, tries to disengage one foot from the serpent's embrace.
The father, Laocoon, himself, is mighty in his sufferings: every muscle is in
extreme action, and his hands and feet are convulsed with painful energy. Yet
there is nothing frightful, disgusting, or contrary to beauty in the countenance.
Suffering is faithfully and strongly depicted there, but it is rather the exhibition
of mental anguish than of the repulsive and undignified contortions of mere physical
pain. The whole of this figure displays the most intimate knowledge of anatomy
and of outward form; the latter selected with care, and freed from any vulgarity
of common individual nature. Indeed, the single figure of Laocoon may be fairly
referred to as one of the finest specimens existing of that combination of truth
and beauty which is so essential to the production of perfect sculpture, and which
can alone insure for it lasting admiration. The sons are of a smaller standard
than the proportion of the father--a liberty hardly justifiable, but taken, probably,
with the view of heightening the effect of the principal figure by the so-called
"pyramidal" arrangement. The right arm of Laocoo is a restoration; but
so ably done, though only in plaster, that the deficiency is said to be scarcely
a blemish. Some antiquarians have thought that the original action of the arm
was not extended, but that this limb was bent back towards the head; and they
have supported their hypothesis by the fact of there being a rough and broken
surface where they think the hand, or perhaps a fold of the serpent, may have
come in contact with the hair. This view is rendered still more probable by a
smaller figure of Laocoon, now in the Museum at Naples. Though much mutilated,
it is evidently copied from the famous group, and is sufficiently preserved to
show that the arms were drawn back, as described above.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Agelaus. A slave of Priam, who exposed the infant Paris on mount Ida, in consequence of a dream of his mother. When, after the lapse of five days, the slave found the infant still alive and suckled by a bear, he took him to his own house and brought him up. (Apollod. iii. 12.4)
Daughter of Priam and Hecuba, and wife of Aeneas. When Troy was surprised by the Greeks, she fled in the night with her husband, but they were separated during the confusion, nor was her absence observed until the other fugitives arrived at the spot appointed for assembling. Aeneas a second time entered the burning city in quest of his wife; but while he was seeking for her through every quarter of Troy, Creusa appeared to him as a deified personage, and appeased his alarm by informing him that she had been adopted by Cybele among her own attendant nymphs; and she then urged him to pursue his course to Italy, with an intimation of the good fortune that awaited him in that land.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
(Ilione). Daughter of Priam and Hecuba, wife of Polymnestor
or Polymestor, king of the Thracian Chersonesus, to whom she bore a son, Deipylus.
Her connection with Polydorus.
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(Poluxene). A daughter of Priam and Hecuba, the betrothed of Achilles, who, at his wedding with her in the temple of the Thymbraean Apollo, was treacherously killed by Paris. After the fall of Troy the shade of Achilles demanded the expiation of his death with her blood, and she was sacrificed on his funeral pyre. Another tradition makes Achilles and Polyxena to have fallen in love with one another when Hector's body was given up to Priam; that Polyxena fled from Troy and joined the Greeks; and that after the death of Achilles she slew herself upon his tomb.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Polyxena, Polyxene : Perseus Project Index
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Daughter of Laomedon, sister of Priam.
Antigone, a daughter of Laomedon and sister of Priam. She boasted of excelling Hera in the beauty of her hair, and was punished for her presumptuous vanity by being changed into a stork. (Ov. Met. vi. 93.)
Cilla (Killa), a daughter of Laomedon and Placia or Leucippe, and a sister of Priam. At the time when Hecabe was pregnant with Paris, the seer Aesacus declared that mother and child must be put to death in order to avert a great calamity; but Priam, who referred this prophetic declaration to Cilla and her son Menippus by Thymoetus, made them suffer instead of Hecabe and Paris. (Apollod. iii. 12.8; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 224.)
Images of the Trojan War Myth, Edited by Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Associate Professor of Classics, Temple University
Tithonus, (Tithonos). The son of Laomedon and Strymo, and brother of Priam. By the prayers of Eos, who loved him, he obtained from the gods immortality, but not eternal youth, in consequence of which he completely shrank together in his old age; whence a decrepit old man was proverbially called Tithonus. Eos changed him into a cicada, or katydid. The story suggested Lord Tennyson's fine poem Tithonus.
Tithonus and Eos : Various WebPages
Hesione was the daughter of King Laomedon of Troy. Hercules met Hesione after his year of enslavement to Omphale, when he set out for Troy. Hercules found Troy in a state of crisis, as King Laomedon had cheated Poseidon and Apollo by failing to pay them for building the walls. For punishment Poseidon had sent a large sea monster, who would only be appeased by devouring the princess, Hesione. Hercules sought to kill the monster and naturally expected a reward, such as Laomedon's amazing horses. Hercules bravely killed the beast by allowing himself to be swallowed by the monster, whom he then killed from the inside. But once a cheat always a cheat: Laomedon skimped on paying Hercules too.
So Hercules raised an army, including such great men as Telamon, father of Ajax. When his army captured the city, Hercules gave Hesione in marriage to Telamon (they soon gave birth to another hero, Teucer). Hesione was given the opportunity to save any one of her fellow Trojan prisoners: she chose her brother Podarces, later known as Priam.
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Hesione. The daughter of Laomedon, king of Troy, and of Leucippe. By her death she was to appease the wrath of Poseidon, who, on account of her father's breaking his word, was devastating the land with a marine monster. Heracles destroyed the monster and set the maiden free; but Laomedon wished to break his promise to the hero, and to deprive him of his stipulated payment. Heracles took Troy, slew Laomedon and his sons, and gave Hesione to his companion Telamon, to whom she bore a son, Teucer.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Hesione, a daughter of Laomedon, and consequently a sister of Priam. When Troy
was visited by a plague and a monster on account of Laomedon's breach of promise,
Laomedon, in order to get rid of these calamities, chained Hesione to a rock,
in accordance with the command of an oracle, where she was to be devoured by wild
beasts. Heracles, on his return from the expedition against the Amazons, promised
to save her, if Laomedon would give him the horses which he had received from
Zeus as a compensation for Ganymedes. Laomedon again promised, but did not keep
his word. (Hom. Il. v. 649, &c.; Diod. iv. 42; Apollod. iii. 12.7.) Hesione was
afterwards given as a slave to Telamon, by whom she became the mother of Teucrus.
Priam sent Antenor to claim her back, and the refusal on the part of the Greeks
is mentioned as one of the causes of the Trojan war. (Dares, Phryg. 4, &c.) According
to Tzetzes (ad Lycoph. 467), Hesione, already in pregnancy by Telamon, fled from
his ship to Miletus, where king Arion found her and her newly-born son, Trambelus,
whom he brought up as his own child.
There are two other mythical personages of this name, one a daughter
of Danaus, and by Zeus the mother of Orchomenus (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 230),
and the other the wife of Nauplius, and the mother of Palamedes, Oeax, land Nausimedon.
(Apollod. ii. 1.5.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Nov 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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