Leucippus (Messenia)
Leucippus ( ancient Greek Λεύκιππος ) is king of Messenia in Greek mythology and the father of the Leucippids named after him .
Leucippus is the son of Perieres and the Gorgophone , his brothers are Aphareus , Tyndareos and Ikarios . He shares control of Messenia with his brother Aphareus. With his wife Philodike he had the daughters Hilaeira and Phoibe , the so-called Leucippids, who are kidnapped by the Dioscuri , as well as Arsinoë , who is the mother of Asclepius by Apollon .
Pausanias reports that, according to Messenian tradition, the laconic city of Leuktron was founded by Leukippos, which seemed credible to Pausanias because of the veneration of Asclepius there. Ovid names him among the participants on the hunt for the Calydonian boar .
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Leukippos 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, column 1996 f. ( Digitized version ).
proof
- ↑ Stesichoros in the library of Apollodor 1, 9, 5; 3, 10, 3; Johannes Tzetzes 511; Pausanias 4, 2, 3; 4, 31, 9; 2, 26, 6; Hyginus Mythographus Fabulae 80; Ovid Fasti 5, 702.
- ↑ Pausanias 3:26 , 3.
- ^ Ovid Metamorphoses 8, 306.