Laodamia

when the GREek ships reached the trojan land at the outbreak of the war，a prophet declared that the first greek setting foot on the enemy soil was doomed to die ．protesilaus，a greek chief，seeing that there was a gooddeal of hesitation among his comrades，leapt overboard and fellinstantly，pierced through by hector''s spear ．when his wife laodamia heard of this she was simply inconsolable ．she offered rich sacrifice to the gods and begged zeus to restore herslaughtered lord to her．moved by her fidelity ，zeus sent hermes to escort the shade of protesilaus back to the upper air tostay with his wife for three hours．laodamia''s joy knew nobounds when she held her slain lord once more in her arms．protesilaus told her the story of his selfsacrifice，and laodamiawas happy to become a bride for a second time．however，shegave a sharp cry when she saw hermes coming at the fixed hourto take protesilaus back to the lower world．so sad was she at the second parting that she died of grief not long after．the pairwere reunited in hades．

拉俄達(dá)彌亞

當(dāng)戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)爆發(fā)時(shí)，段臘般抵達(dá)特洛伊地區(qū)。一位預(yù)言家宣稱，第一個(gè)踏上敵人土地的段臘人注定會(huì)死。一位名叫普洛忒西拉斯的希臘酋長(zhǎng)看著同伴躊躇不前，就從船上跳入水中，一瞬時(shí)他就倒下了，被海克特的長(zhǎng)矛穿透了胸膛。他的妻子拉俄達(dá)彌亞聽(tīng)到這個(gè)消息，悲痛之心無(wú)法得以慰藉。她獻(xiàn)給眾神豐厚的祭品，哀求宙斯把被殺的丈夫還給她。她的忠貞感動(dòng)了宙斯。宙斯派海默斯護(hù)送普洛忒西拉斯的幽魂回到陽(yáng)間與他的妻子共度三個(gè)小時(shí)。她再次擁抱被殺的丈夫。她的喜悅無(wú)邊無(wú)際。普洛忒西拉斯給她講述了他自我獻(xiàn)身的故事。拉俄達(dá)彌亞很高興再做一次新娘。然而，當(dāng)海默斯預(yù)定的時(shí)間到來(lái)時(shí)，普洛忒西拉斯將被帶回陰間，她痛苦地叫了一聲。對(duì)于第二次分別她如此悲痛不堪，以致于不久之后就在痛苦之中死去。他們?cè)谮じ性俅螆F(tuán)圓。