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Laodice of Macedonia



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.



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