Laodamas
1. A son of Aleinous, king of the Phaeacians, and Arete, was the favourite of his father. (Iliad of Homer viii)
2. A son of Antenor, was slain at Troy by the Telamonian Ajax. (Iliad of Homer xv)
3. A son of Eteocles, and king of Thebes: in his youth he had been under the guardianship of Creon. ( Pausanias Book 1) It was in his reign that the Epigoni marched against Thebes. Laodamas offered them a battle on the river Glisas, and slew their leader Aegialeus, but he himself was killed by Alcmaeon. (Apollodorus iii)
Others related, that after the battle was lost, Laodamas fled in the night with the remnant of his army, and took refuge in the territory of the Encheleans in Illyricum. (Pausanias ix; Herodotus v)
From Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and MythologyFrom The Odyssey of Homer. Book VIII
He spake, and led the way, and they went with him. And the henchman hung the loud lyre on the pin, and took the hand of Demodocus, and let him forth from the hall, and guided him by the same way, whereby those others, the chiefs of the Phaeacians, had gone to gaze upon the games. So they went on their way to the place of assembly, and with them a great company innumerable; and many a noble youth stood up to play. There rose Acroneus, and Ocyalus, and Elatreus, and Nauteus, and Prymneus, and Anchialus, and Eretmeus, and Ponteus, and Proreus, Thoon, and Anabesineus, and Amphialus, son of Polyneus, son of Tekton, and likewise Euryalus, the peer of murderous Ares, the son of Naubolus, who in face and form was goodliest of all the Phaeacians next to noble Laodamas. And there stood up the three sons of noble Alcinous, Laodamas, and Halius, and god-like Clytoneus. And behold, these all first tried the issue in the foot race. From the very start they strained at utmost speed: and all together they flew forward swiftly, raising the dust along the plain.
From Herodotus The History. The Fifth Book: Terpsichore
The third tripod has also an inscription in hexameters, which runs thus:—King Laodamas gave this tripod to far-seeing Phoebus, When he was set on the throne- a wondrous beautiful offering.
