In the surviving mythographic record Laophonte is presented as a member of heroic-age pedigrees rather than as a figure with a narrative of her own. She is named as a daughter of Pleuron and Xanthippe and sister to Agenor, Sterope, and Stratonice. Several sources record traditions that make her wife of Thestius and mother of Iphiclus, Leda, and Althaea; other authors preserve variant genealogies (for example, the poet Alcman is cited as giving Leda a different father, Glaucus). The cited material treats Laophonte chiefly as a node in kinship lists that connect better-known mythic figures.
No physical description of Laophonte appears in the cited mythographic sources. She is attested only by name in genealogical contexts. Separately, the zoological usage of Laophonte denotes a genus of copepods; species lists and taxonomic papers are cited, but the supplied excerpts do not provide a morphological diagnosis of the genus as a whole.
The mythographic sources do not attribute supernatural powers, notable deeds, or characteristic behaviors to Laophonte; she functions in the sources as a mortal woman identified by familial relationships. As a taxonomic genus, Laophonte refers to harpacticoid copepods (family Laophontidae), but specific behavioral or ecological details for the genus are not supplied in the provided excerpts.
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Antiphus
Antiphus (Ancient Greek Ἄντιφος) is a personal name borne by several mortal men in Greek myth and epic traditions rather than a single supernatural being. Multiple figures named Antiphus appear in genealogies and narratives as princes, warriors, companions of heroes, colonists, and victims in the heroic age (generation of Heracles, the Trojan War, and the Odyssey).
Bebryces
The Bebryces (Greek: Βέβρυκες) are a legendary people or tribe attested in Greek mythographic and geographic tradition, primarily located in Bithynia (northwestern Anatolia). They appear in heroic-age narratives as local rulers and warriors—not as supernatural beings—and are associated with episodes involving Heracles, the Argonauts, and named kings such as Amycus and Mygdon.
Caletor
Caletor (Ancient Greek: Καλήτωρ) is a personal name borne by at least two mortal figures in the Trojan War cycle: a Trojan defender, son of Clytius, who attempted to burn an Achaean ship and was slain by Ajax; and a separate Caletor attested as the father of the Achaean warrior Aphareus. He is treated in the sources as a human participant in epic narrative and genealogy.
Ctimenus
Ctimenus (Ancient Greek: Κτιμένου) is attested in Greek mythographic records as a human genealogical figure — named as the father of the Argonaut Eurydamas and associated with Ctimene in Dolopian Thessaly. He is not described as a supernatural being; extant sources record only his genealogical role and note an alternative tradition giving Eurydamas different parentage.
Damno
Damno is a figure in Greek mythographic genealogies identified as an Egyptian princess, daughter of King Belus, who in some accounts marries Agenor and is mother to Isaia (Isaie) and Melia. She functions primarily as a dynastic link in origin myths rather than as an independently active mythic character.
Diores
Diores (Ancient Greek: Διώρης, Diṓrēs) is not a single supernatural entity but a recurring personal name borne by several distinct mortal figures in Greek and Roman epic and mythographic tradition. The name appears attached to at least four human characters — fathers, leaders, princes, and husbands — across Homeric, mythographic, and Virgilian narratives.
Dotis
Dotis (Ancient Greek: Δωτίς or Δωτίδος) is a personal name attested in ancient Greek mythographic and lexicographic sources. The name is borne by multiple mythic individuals known from genealogical notices (one male, two female in the cited traditions) rather than a single, coherent supernatural being or class of entity.
Echemela
Echemela is a variant personal name attested in Greek mythographic and commentarial traditions as the wife (bride) of Megapenthes, the illegitimate son of Menelaus. The name appears alongside other onomastic variants (Iphiloche, Echemelos) in manuscript and commentary transmissions rather than as an independent supernatural figure.
Egremus
Egremus is a named mortal figure in Greek myth attested only as a combatant who fell in the war between Eumolpus and Eleusis. He is identified by the patronymic 'son of Eurynomus' and appears only in genealogical/war-list context in the cited source.
Epistrophus
Epistrophus is a personal name borne by several mortal figures in Greek mythic genealogies and epic narratives. In the Homeric and later mythographic tradition he is attested primarily as a heroic-age leader — notably a leader of the Phocians in the Trojan War cycle — and appears in catalogue-lists, genealogical summaries, and death-notes rather than as a supernatural being.
Haemon
Haemon (Ancient Greek: Αἵμων, Haímōn) is a mortal Theban prince in the dynastic cycle of Thebes and a principal human character in Sophocles' Antigone; he is Creon's son and Antigone's fiancé whose choices and fate exemplify conflicts between filial duty and civic authority. He is a human tragic figure, not a supernatural being.
Medon
Medon (Μέδων) is a Greek personal name attested across mythic, epic, and civic sources for multiple distinct mortal figures (herald, warriors, local notable) and once for a centaur; it functions as a name-cluster rather than a single supernatural being. The name also recurs in modern taxonomic and toponymic usages, which are homonymous transfers rather than indications of a unified mythic entity.
Community Record
- [1]Laophonte — Wikipedia. Wikipedia, 'Laophonte' entry (summarizing genealogical attestations including parentage and offspring; notes Alcman variant).wiki
- [2]Laophonte (person) — UVic Myth Index. University of Victoria, Myth Index entry for Laophonte (genealogical summary).academic
- [3]Laophonte | Facts, Information, and Mythology — Pantheon. Pantheon.org article summarizing Laophonte's genealogical attestations.other
- [4]Leda (mythology) — Wikipedia. Wikipedia, 'Leda' entry noting variant parentage traditions including Alcman's account.wiki
- [5]Wikidata: Laophonte (genus). Wikidata entry recording Laophonte as a genus of copepods.other
- [6]On a new species of Laophonte (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from Madras — Krishnaswamy, S.. Record from the Zoological Survey noting a new species description placed in the genus Laophonte.academic
- [7]Laophonte species listings — Lucio Pesce Copepod pages. Online species lists showing multiple species names under the genus Laophonte (e.g., Laophonte longistylata, Laophonte macani).other
- [8]Phylogenetic revision including Laophonte / Laophontidae discussion. Phylogenetic revision of related harpacticoid taxa referencing Laophonte and species such as Laophonte brevispinosa Sars, 1908.academic