A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 482
vored to prevent the Tro-jans taking the wooden horseinto the city. As he wasabout to sacrifice a bull toNeptune (Poseidon), two ser-pents came from the sea, anddestroyed him and his twosons. Laodamia. Daughter ofAcastus. Wife of Protesilaus.Her husband was slain beforeTroy, and she obtained… … Laocodn. (Vatican.) Others. King of Troy. Poseidon (Neptune) and Apollo had dis-pleased Zeus (Jupiter), and he sentenced them to serve Laome-don. Apollo tended his flocks on Mount Ida, and Poseidon builtthe walls of Troy. When they had done, the king refused thewages he had agreed to give, and in…
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