Leukothea
Leukothoe ( Greek Λευκοθόη ) is the daughter of King Orchamos and Eurynome in Greek mythology .
Leukothoe is so beautiful that Apollo falls in love with her and forgets all other lovers, including her sister Klytia . She is jealous and tells Orchamos about the love affair, which Leukothoe then lets buried alive. Apollo arrives too late to save her and lets a stick of incense grow up out of her grave. As a result, Klytia has lost the favor of the sun god and sits sadly on a rock for nine days and nights without food or drink, her face turned to the sun. After nine days it transforms into a flower that always has to face the sun.
Their myth has only been handed down in Ovid ; Lactantius Placidus writes in his Argumenta that Ovid took over the myth from Hesiod .
literature
- Schirmer: Leukothoë . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Col. 2017 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Leukothoe in the Greek Myth Index (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ovid Metamorphosen 4, 208 ff.
- ↑ Lactantius Placidus Argumenta , Metamorphoses 4, 5.