Laodice (in Greek Λαοδικη) was wife of Antiochus, a general of distinction in the service of Philip IV of Macedon, and mother of Seleucus, the founder of the Seleucid Empire. It was pretended, in con­sequence of a dream which she had, that Apollo was the real father of her child.¹ No less than five cities were founded by Seleucus in different parts of his dominions, which bore in her honour the name of Laodicea.²

References

Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Laodice (4)", Boston, (1867)

Notes

• 1 Justin, Epitome, xv. 4
  
• 2 Appian, Foreign Wars, "The Syrian Wars", 57
  

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This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1867).