Leucippus (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Leucippus (Ancient Greek: Λεύκιππος Leukippos, "white horse") was a name attributed to multiple characters:

• Leucippus of Messenia, father of the Phoebe, Hilaera and Arsinoe.[1]
• Leucippus, the son of Heracles and Eurytele, daughter of Thespius.[2]
• Leucippus, a Calydonian hunter, son of Hippocoon.[3]
• Leucippus, the daughter of Lamprus and Galatea, who was turned by Leto into a son.[4][5]
• Leucippus, the son of Oenomaus and companion of Daphne, whom he was in love with and tried to approach in the disguise of a fellow nymph of hers. Because of Apollo's jealousy, his true gender was revealed by the nymphs, who killed him instantly upon discovery.[6][7] This Leucippus might be the one referred to having a wife and a rival Apollo in love.[8]
• Leucippus, the son of Poemander who was killed accidentally by his father.[9]
• Leucippus, the son of Thurimachus and king of Sicyon.[10]
• Leucippus, the son of Xanthius who consorted with his own sister and with Leucophrye.[11]
• Leucippus, one of the sons of Macareus, and the leader of a colony at Rhodes[12]
• Leucippus, son of Naxos (the eponym of Naxos) and king of the island. His son was Smerdius.[13]
• Leucippus, son of King Eurypylus of Cyrene and Sterope (daughter of Helios) and brother of Lycaon.[14][15]

Notes

1. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.10.3
2. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.7.8
3. Hyginus, Fabulae 173
4. Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 17
5. R.F. Willetts (1963). Cretan Cults and Festivals, 175.
6. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 8.20.2
7. Parthenius, Erotica Pathemata 15
8. Homeric Hymns to Apollo, 3.212
9. Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 37
10. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.5.5
11. Parthenius, Erotica Pathemata 5
12. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 5.81
13. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 5.51
14. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 886
15. Scholia on Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.57

References

• Antoninus Liberalis, The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992). Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, Moralia with an English Translation by Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Parthenius, Love Romances translated by Sir Stephen Gaselee (1882-1943), S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 69. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1916. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Parthenius, Erotici Scriptores Graeci, Vol. 1. Rudolf Hercher. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1858. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pseudo-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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Homeric Hymns. Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.