Who is the king of the Laestrygonians?

The king of the Laestrygonians is Antiphates.

In Homer’s Odyssey, Antiphates rules the giant, man-eating people who live at Telepylus. Odysseus sends three men to investigate the strange land, and they meet a young woman who directs them to the king’s house. Antiphates’s gigantic wife summons him, and he immediately seizes and eats one of the scouts.

The other two scouts flee, but Antiphates raises an alarm. Thousands of Laestrygonians then gather around the harbor, hurling stones at the ships and killing their crews. Because Odysseus’s vessel remains outside the harbor, it escapes while the rest of the fleet is destroyed.

Lamos is a common mix-up because the Odyssey calls Telepylus the rocky stronghold of Lamos; Lamos may be understood as the city’s founder or associated place-name, but he is not identified as the king in this episode. Aeolus rules the floating island of winds, while Polyphemus is a Cyclops, not a Laestrygonian.