Leuke (mythology)
Leuke ( ancient Greek Λεύκη ) is a nymph of Greek mythology .
She appears only in a commentary by Servius on Virgil's Eclogae , in which she is presented as the daughter of Oceanus . She is kidnapped by Pluton for reasons of love into the underworld . At the end of its natural life, it is transferred to the Elysion as a silver poplar ( ancient Greek ΛεΛκη ) . Heracles wreaths himself with the foliage of the poplar when he returns from the underworld after completing his task.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Leuke 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, column 1986 f. ( Digitized version ).
Remarks
- ^ Maurus Servius Honoratus , Commentarius in Vergilii eclogas 7, 61.