Laodamia

Reading notes

• The Loves §2.18 Laodamia

  Wife of Protesilaus, who died with her husband fallen at Troy; 'companion to her dead husband.'

• The Art of Love §2.17 Laodamia

  Wife of Protesilaus, who could not endure his absence and death.

• The Art of Love §3.1 Phylacian's wife

  Laodamia of Phylace, who followed her husband Protesilaus into death.

• The Heroides §13 Laodamia of Haemonia

  Wife of Protesilaus, of Thessaly (Haemonia); the speaker, dreading the war that fate has marked for her husband.

• Letters from the Black Sea §3.1 Iphias

  Laodamia (daughter of Iphis), who threw herself onto her husband Protesilaus's pyre rather than live without him; an extreme of devotion Ovid does not ask of his wife.

• The Cure for Love §22 Laodamia

  Wife of Protesilaus, who clung to a wax image of her dead husband and died of grief.

• Sorrows §1.6 Laodamia

  The wife who chose to die with her husband Protesilaus; a type of wifely devotion.

• Sorrows §5.14 Phylacian wife

  Laodamia of Phylace, whose husband Protesilaus was first to fall at Troy; the type of the faithful wife who would not outlive him.