Laodice

Mithridates VI, who ruled Pontus, a Persian satrapy on the Black Sea, during the second and first centuries B.C., survived a poisoning attempt by his mother, Queen Laodice, after his father was poisoned.

His ex-wife, Laodice, insisted that the old king, with his dying breath, had named as successor her son Seleucus II. The sitting queen, Berenice Syra, rejected Laodice’s claim and announced the ascension of her own son.

Entering his sister’s private apartments, he made a grisly discovery: Berenice and her son had already been murdered by allies of Laodice.

Crampton by separating and isolating the blastomeres in the two-cell stage obtained a half embryo; and Zoja by isolating blastomeres of the medusae, Clytia and Laodice, got dwarfed larvae.

Laodice lays a hand on Danaë's heart.