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Leucippus, the Thespian son of Heracles and Eurytele, [6] daughter of King Thespius of Thespiae. [7] Leucippus and his 49 half-brothers were born of Thespius' daughters who were impregnated by Heracles in one night, [8] for a week [9] or in the course of 50 days [10] while hunting for the Cithaeronian lion. [11]
Leucippus excelled in strength and valour, and was thus well known among the Lycians and their neighbours as well, who were constantly plundered and mistreated by him. He incurred the wrath of the goddess Aphrodite after an unspecified offence, and so the goddess made him fall in love with his own sister (who is not named).
daughter of Mandrolytus; she betrayed her city for the love of a man Leucus: Λεῦκος the name of several mythological figures Lityerses: Λιτυέρσης a son of Midas killed by Heracles, and eponym of a kind of reaping songs Lophis: Λόφις the young son of a Boeotian king Lycaon: Λυκάων the name of several mythological ...
The Greek pantheon of gods included mortal-born heroes and heroines who were elevated to godhood through a process which the Greeks termed apotheosis. [1] Some of these received the privilege as a reward for their helpfulness to mankind example: Heracles, Asclepius and Aristaeus, others through marriage to gods, example: Ariadne, Tithonus and Psyche, and some by luck or pure chance example ...
She united the girl to Leucippus, and they consorted for a while. But the girl was already betrothed to another man, to whom someone reported the matter. The groom went on to inform Xanthius, without telling him the name of the seducer. Xanthius went straight to his daughter's chamber, where she was together with Leucippus right at the moment.
Hermes fell in love with the Athenian princess Herse, and tried to gain access into her bedchamber one night. Herse's jealous sister Aglaurus however barred his entry into the house and refused to move. Hermes, in anger, changed Aglaurus into stone. Alcmene: Unclear After her death, the body of Heracles's mother Alcmene was transformed into stone.
Other gods are sometimes considered patrons of homosexual love between males, such as the love goddess Aphrodite and gods in her retinue, such as the Erotes: Eros, Himeros and Pothos. [5] Eros is also part of a trinity of gods that played roles in homoerotic relationships, along with Heracles and Hermes , who bestowed qualities of beauty (and ...
Leucippus's atoms come in infinitely many forms and exist in constant motion, creating a deterministic world in which everything is caused by the collisions of atoms. Leucippus described the beginning of the cosmos as a vortex of atoms that formed the Earth, the Sun, the stars, and other celestial bodies. As Leucippus considered both atoms and ...