Chain Break

Consequently Laomedon was constrained by necessity to deliver the maiden and to leave her, bound in chains, upon the shore.

Here Heracles, when he had disembarked with the Argonauts and learned from the girl of her sudden change of fortune, rent asunder the chains which were about her body and going up to the city made an offer to the king to slay the monster.


- Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, Book 4, Chapter 42, Sections 4-5