古希腊神话故事:拉俄达弥亚

　　Laodamia when the greek ships reached the trojan land at the outbreakof the war,a prophet declared that the first greek setting foot on theenemy soil was doomed to die .protesilaus ,a greek chief ,seeing thatthere was a gooddeal of hesitation among his comrades ,leapt overboardand fellinstantly ,pierced through by hector''s spear .when his wifelaodamia heard of this she was simply inconsolable .she offered rich sacrificeto the gods and begged zeus to restore herslaughtered lord to her.movedby her fidelity ,zeus sent hermes to escort the shade of protesilausback to the upper air tostay with his wife for three hours.laodamia''sjoy knew nobounds when she held her slain lo