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Laodice (in Greek Λαοδικη; lived in the 3rd century BC), wife of Achaeus, she was daughter of Mithridates II king of Pontus and sister of Antiochus III's wife, also called Laodice.¹ When Achaeus fell into the power of Antiochus (213 BC), Laodice was left in possession of the citadel of Sardis, in which she held out for a time, but was quickly compelled by the dissensions among her own troops to surrender to Antiochus.² Polybius incidentally mentions that this princess was brought up before her marriage at Selge, in Pisidia (today part of Turkey), under the care of Logbasis, a citizen of that place.³

References

Polybius, Histories, Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (translator), London - New York, (1889)
Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Laodice (8)", Boston, (1867)

Notes

1 Polybius, viii. 22

2 Ibid., viii. 23

3 Ibid., v. 74

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

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