LAOMEDON'S MAGICAL HORSES
Membership: None identified
Purpose: To serve Laomedon
Aliases: The Trojan Hippoi
Affiliations: Erikhthonios, Laomedon, possibly
Tros (see comments)
Enemies: Hercules (Heracles) (indirectly)
Base of Operations: Troy
First Appearance: (mentioned in Marvel Comics)
Incredible Hercules I#114 (March, 2008)
History:
(Greek/Roman myth) - Twelve magical horses were sired by Boreas, the
Greek god of the north wind and winter, by the horses belonging to King
Erikhthonios of Troy. Each of the magical horses were capable of moving
so fast that they could run on water. When King Laomedon of Troy's son
was kidnapped by the Greek god Zeus, Zeus saw how Laomedon grieved for
his son and sent Hermes to present Laomedon with the gift of two of the
magical horses as compensation (see
comments).
(Greek/Roman myth/Incredible Hercules I#114 (fb) -
BTS) - When Laomedon's daughter was captured by the monster of
Poseidon, Laomedon hired the demigod Hercules to rescue his daughter,
promising his magical horses as payment. Laomedon subsequently
neglected to turn over the horses and a maddened Hercules laid waste to
all of Troy circa 1264 B.C., killing Laemedon and all but one of his
sons.
Comments: Adapted into Marvel Comics by Greg Pak, Fred Van Lente, Khoi Pham and Paul Neary.
Some accounts vary as to which King of Troy originally received the magical horses, as some accounts state Laomedon received them as compensation for the capture of his son Ganymede but other state it was Tros, Laomedon's grandfather and an earlier king. Since other myths state that the magic horses were born to horses belonging to King Erikhthonios of Troy by way of the Greek god Boreas, it stands to be possible that perhaps the horses were born to Erikthonios' horses and possibly passed down to Tros and eventually gifted to Laomedon by Zeus himself. The Marvel Comics version only mentions the horses belonging to Laomedon.
I couldn't easily find images of
the magical horses by searching the internet and they do not directly
appear in the flashback in Incredible Hercules I#114. Incredible
Hercules I#114 does show some of Laomedon's guards with horses but I
don't believe those are meant to be the magical horses but rather, just
normal horses. I found an illustration online of Hercules forcibly
acquiring Laomedon's magical horses but it was horribly obscured by
stock photography watermarks and not exactly ideal for an image in this
profile.
Profile by Proto-Man.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Laomedon's magical horses have no known connections to:
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Appearances:
Incredible Hercules I#114 (March, 2008) - Greg Pak, Fred Van Lente
(writers), Khoi Pham (pencils), Paul Neary (inks), Mark Paniccia
(editor)
First Posted: 07/14/2023
Last updated: 07/14/2023
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