In Hellenistic history, too, many women bear this name, almost all of them related:

• Laodice of Macedonia was the mother of Seleucus I Nicator, founder of the Seleucid dynasty.
  
• Laodice I was a queen of Antiochus II Theos and mother of Seleucus II Callinicus
  
• Laodice II was the queen of Seleucus II Callinicus
  
• Laodice III was the daughter of Mithridates II of Pontus and the wife of Antiochus III the Great
  
  • Laodice of Pontus, her sister, was another daughter of Mithridates II king of Pontus and the wife of Achaeus, a Seleucid general.
    
• Laodice of Cappadocia was the wife of Ariarathes VI of Cappadocia