Leucippe

In Greek mythology, Leucippe (Ancient Greek: Λευκίππη, "white horse") is the name of the following individuals:

• Leucippe, an Oceanid
• Leucippe, one of the Minyades
• Leucippe, the wife of King Thestius of Pleuron and mother of Iphiclus and Althaea.[1]
• Leucippe, was a queen of Troy as the wife of Ilus, founder of Ilium. By him, she became the mother of Laomedon[2] and possibly, Themiste,[3] Telecleia[4] and Tithonus. In some accounts, the wife of Ilus was called Eurydice, daughter of Adrastus or Batia, daughter of Teucer.[5]
• Leucippe, the wife of Laomedon. According to Apollodorus of Athens, she and Laomedon had five sons, Tithonus, Lampus, Clytius, Hicetaon, and Priam, and three daughters, Hesione, Cilla and Astyoche. Otherwise the wife of Laomedon was identified as Strymo, daughter of Scamander or Placia, daughter of Otreus[6] or Zeuxippe.[7]
• Leucippe, a daughter of Thestor and possibly Polymele,[8] and thus, sister of Theonoe, Calchas and Theoclymenus.[9] 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.[10]
• Leucippe, mother of Egyptian king, Aegyptus by Hephaestus.[11]
• 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.[12]
• Leucippe, the wife of Euenor (mythology) and mother of Cleito in Plato' s legend of Atlantis.
• Leucippe, the heroine of The Adventures of Leucippe and Cleitophon by Achilles Tatius

Notes

1. Hyginus, Fabulae 14
2. Hyginus, Fabulae 250
3. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.12.2
4. Scholia on Euripides, Hecuba, 3
5. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.12.3 & footnote 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"
6. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.12.3
7. as cited in Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.12.3, footnote 8 & Scholiast on Homer, Iliad 3.250 which have the authority of the poet Alcman
8. Tzetzes, Homeric Allegories, Prologue, 639
9. Hyginus. Fabulae, 128
10. Hyginus, Fabulae 190
11. Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis 16
12. Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis 21.4

References

• 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, 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.
• 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.