Leucippe

In Greek mythology, '''Leucippe''' ({{langx|grc|Λευκίππη|4=white horse}}<ref name=":02">{{Cite book|last=Bane|first=Theresa|title=Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology|publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers|year=2013|isbn=9780786471119|page=214}}</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, [https://topostext.org/work/216#10 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'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#14 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'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#250 250]</ref> and possibly, Themiste,<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.12.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022 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, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.12.3&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022 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, [https://topostext.org/work/860#hypo1 prologue] & [https://topostext.org/work/860#18 18]</ref>{{AI-generated source|date=November 2024}} 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, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.12.3 3.12.3]</ref> or Zeuxippe.<ref>as cited in Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.12.3&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022 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'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#128 128]</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'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#190 190]</ref> *Leucippe, mother of Egyptian king, Aegyptus by Hephaestus.<ref>Pseudo-Plutarch, ''De fluviis'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0094.tlg001.perseus-eng1:16 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'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0094.tlg001.perseus-eng1:21 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

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==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. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 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. [https://topostext.org/work/206 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. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0400%3Achapter%3D1 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. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0180%3Atext%3DCriti. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0179%3Atext%3DCriti. 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. [http://data.perseus.org/texts/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0094.tlg001.perseus-eng1 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). [https://topostext.org/work/860 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]. Greek text available on Archive.org

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