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Earrings Hesione
Hesione was a Trojan princess, daughter of King Laomedon of Troy, sister of Priam and second wife of King Telamon of Salamis. Apollo and Poseidon were angry at King Laomedon because he refused to pay the wage, he promised them for building Troy's walls. Apollo sent a plague and Poseidon a sea monster to destroy Troy. Oracles promised deliverance if Laomedon would expose his daughter Hesione to be devoured by the sea monster Cetus (in other versions, the lot happened to fall on her) and he exposed her by fastening her naked to the rocks near the sea. Heracles, Telamon and Oicles happened to arrive on their return from the expedition against the Amazons. Seeing her exposed, Heracles promised to save her on condition that Laomedon would give him the wonderful horses he had received from Zeus as compensation for Zeus' kidnapping of Ganymede. Laomedon agreed, and Heracles slew the monster. In some accounts, after being swallowed by it, he hacked at its innards for three days before it died. He emerged, having lost all his hair. However, Laomedon refused to give him the promised award.
Σύμφωνα με τον Ελλάνικο, ο Ποσειδώνας και ο Απόλλωνας έχτισαν τα τείχη της Τροίας, αλλά ο Λαομέδων δεν τους έδωσε αμοιβή για το έργο τους.
Για να τον τιμωρήσουν, ο Ποσειδώνας έστειλε στη χώρα του ένα θαλάσσιο κήτος το οποίο κατασπάραζε τους ανθρώπους ενώ ο Απόλλωνας λοιμό που οδήγησε πλήθη στο θάνατο.Ο Λαομέδων ζήτησε τη συμβουλή του μάντη Φαινοδάμαντος για να απαλλάξει το βασίλειό του από το κακό αυτό.
Η απάντηση ήταν ότι θα έπρεπε να παραδώσει την κόρη του Ησιόνη ως τροφή στο κήτος.
Source: Wikipedia.
