Before the outbreak of the
Trojan War, Laodice fell in love with
Acamas, son of
Theseus, who had come to Troy to try to recover
Helen through diplomatic means. She became pregnant and bore him the son
Munitus. The later was given to Acamas' grandmother
Aethra, who was then a slave to
Helen. After the war had ended, Acamas took his son with him. Much later, Munitus was bitten by a snake while hunting with his father in
Thrace and died.[4][5]
According to the Bibliotheca and several other sources, in the night of the fall of Troy Laodice feared she might become one of the captive women and prayed to the gods. She was swallowed up in a
chasm that opened on the earth.[6][7][8][9]
Pausanias, however, mentions her among the captive Trojans painted in the Lesche of
Delphi. He assumes that she was subsequently set free because no poet mentions her as a captive, and he further surmises that the Greeks would have done her no harm, since she was married to a son of Antenor, who was a
guest-friend of the Greeks
Menelaus and
Odysseus.[10]
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.
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