Leucippe

In Greek mythology, Leucippe (Template:Langx means 'white horse'<ref name=":02">Template:Cite book</ref>) is the name of the following individuals:

• Leucippe, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys.<ref name=":02" /> Leucippe, along with her sisters, was one of the companions of Persephone when the maiden was abducted by Hades, the god of the Underworld.<ref>Homeric Hymn to Demeter 418</ref>
• Leucippe, one of the Minyades, daughter of King Minyas of Orchomenus. It was her son that the sisters tore apart in their madness.<ref>Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.168</ref><ref>Antoninus Liberalis, 10 as cited in Nicander's Metamorphoses</ref>
• Leucippe, the wife of King Thestius of Pleuron and mother of Iphiclus and Althaea.<ref>Hyginus, Fabulae 14</ref>
• Leucippe, a queen of Troy as the wife of Ilus, founder of Ilium. By him, she became the mother of Laomedon<ref>Hyginus, Fabulae 250</ref> and possibly, Themiste,<ref>Apollodorus, 3.12.2</ref> Telecleia<ref>Scholia on Euripides, Hecuba 3</ref> and Tithonus. In some accounts, the wife of Ilus was called Eurydice, daughter of Adrastus or Batia, daughter of Teucer.<ref>Apollodorus, 3.12.3 & f.n. 7 which disregard the connection stating that "if the family tree recorded by Apollodorus is correct, Batia could hardly have been the wife of Ilus, since she was his great-grandmother"</ref>
• Leucippe, another Trojan queen as the wife of King Laomedon.<ref name=":0">Tzetzes ad Lycophron, prologue & 18</ref>Template:AI-generated source According to the mythographer Apollodorus, she and Laomedon had five sons, Tithonus, Lampus, Clytius, Hicetaon, and Priam,<ref name=":0" /> and three daughters, Hesione, Cilla and Astyoche. Otherwise the wife of Laomedon was identified as Strymo, daughter of Scamander or Placia, daughter of Otreus<ref>Apollodorus, 3.12.3</ref> or Zeuxippe.<ref>as cited in Apollodorus, 3.12.3, f.n. 8 & Scholiast on Homer, Iliad 3.250 which have the authority of the poet Alcman</ref>
• Leucippe, a daughter of Thestor and possibly Polymele,<ref>Tzetzes, Homeric Allegories Prologue, 639</ref> and thus, sister of Theonoe, Calchas and Theoclymenus.<ref>Hyginus, Fabulae 128</ref> She became a priestess of Apollo and went from country to country in search of her father, Thestor and sister Theonoe who was stolen by pirates.<ref>Hyginus, Fabulae 190</ref>
• Leucippe, mother of Egyptian king, Aegyptus by Hephaestus.<ref>Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis 16.</ref>
• Leucippe, mother of Teuthras the Mysian king. Her son killed a sacred boar of Artemis during hunt and was driven mad by the angry goddess. Lysippe then went out in the woods, seeking to find out what had happened to her son. Eventually she learned about the goddess' wrath from the seer Polyidus; she then sacrificed to the goddess to propitiate her, and Teuthras' sanity was restored.<ref>Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis 21.4</ref>
• Leucippe, the wife of Euenor and mother of Cleito in Plato' s legend of Atlantis.<ref>Plato, Critias 113d ff.</ref>
• Leucippe, the heroine of The Adventures of Leucippe and Cleitophon by Achilles Tatius

References

• Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. 1960. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, Morals translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, Ph.D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 5. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Plato, Critias in Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available at the same website.
• Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis, in Plutarch's morals, Volume V, edited and translated by William Watson Goodwin, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1874. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Scholia to Lycophron's Alexandra, marginal notes by Isaak and Ioannis Tzetzes and others from the Greek edition of Eduard Scheer (Weidmann 1881). Online version at the Topos Text Project.. Greek text available on Archive.org