person
Laomedon
also: Λαομέδων
Priam's father and a former king of Troy, who cheated Apollo and Poseidon of their wages after they built Troy's walls for him — the grievance that turns Poseidon against the city in this war.
Reading notes
- The Iliad §3.243 Laomedon
Priam's father and a former king of Troy, who cheated Apollo and Poseidon of their wages after they built Troy's walls for him — the old grievance behind Poseidon's hostility to the city in the poem.