Hesione

In the principal mythic account, Apollo and Poseidon punished King Laomedon of Troy for refusing wages promised for building Troy's walls by sending a plague and a sea‑monster; oracles declared that Troy could be saved only if Laomedon exposed his daughter Hesione to be devoured (in some versions the lot fell on her). She was fastened naked to the rocks by the sea to await the monster. Heracles (with Telamon and Oicles) arrived and promised to slay the beast in return for Laomedon's magnificent horses; Heracles killed the creature but Laomedon later refused payment, prompting Heracles' later sack of Troy. Variants in the tradition record differing secondary details (for example, variant accounts of which sons of Laomedon survived, differing genealogical attributions for children named in later traditions, and variant narrative emphases), but the core episode of exposure, rescue by Heracles, ransom of her brother, and later diplomatic attempted recovery is consistent in the sources provided.

The sources give no sustained physical description beyond the narrative circumstance that Hesione was exposed and fastened naked to the rocks near the sea as a sacrificial victim. Later tradition records her as subsequently marrying Telamon and bearing children in some accounts (sources record variants such as Teucros or alternative offspring in differing tellings), and that many years later she was an old woman when Priam sought her return; these later markers show the progression of her life but do not supply detailed contemporaneous appearance descriptors.

Hesione is a mortal human and is not attributed supernatural powers in the provided sources. Her recorded behaviors and narrative roles include: being the sacrificial/hostage figure whose exposure fulfills an oracular prescription; being rescued by Heracles and given in marriage to Telamon; ransoming her brother Podarces by surrendering her veil (after which he becomes known as Priam); and later functioning as a diplomatic object whose attempted recovery from Greece is narrated as a factor in the sequence that leads to Paris's abduction of Helen. No independent magical or superhuman agency is ascribed to her in the documents supplied.