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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).
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.
Leucippus of Crete, son of Lamprus and Galatea, who was born female and was magically transformed into a man by the goddess Leto. [2] [3] Leucippus (son of Thurimachus), the son of Thurimachus and king of Sicyon. [4] Leucippus (son of Xanthius), the son of Xanthius who consorted with his own sister and later with Leucophryne. [5]
According to him, Leucippus was a son of the prince of Pisa, whose attempts to woo her by open courtship all failed, as Daphne avoided all males. [16] Leucippus then thought of the following trick; he grew his hair and wore women's clothes, and this way managed to get close to Daphne, to whom he introduced himself as a daughter of the prince.
priestess of Aphrodite who inadvertedly caused her lover Leandros' death and then died of suicide by throwing herself into the water Hesychia: Ἡσυχείη personification of quiet and silence Hilaeira: Ἱλάειρα one of the Leucippides, wife of Castor Hippocoon: Ἱπποκόων the name of several mythological figures Hippodamas
Aphrodite (/ ˌ æ f r ə ˈ d aɪ t iː / ⓘ, AF-rə-DY-tee) [a] is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretized Roman counterpart Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. Aphrodite's major symbols include seashells, myrtles, roses, doves
The Aphrodite Rhithymnia (Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδίτη Ῥιθυμνία, romanized: Aphrodítē Rhithumnía, lit. 'Aphrodite of Rhithymna'), also known as Aphrodite of Lappa ( Greek : Αφροδίτη της Λάππας ), is a Roman statue of the first century AD found at the site of ancient Lappa , in modern-day Argyroupoli , western ...
Aphrodite The Propoetides sisters dared to claim that Aphrodite was no real goddess, so she proved them wrong by turning them into flints. Pyrrhus: Stone Rhea Pyrrgus was a mortal man who tried to force the goddess Rhea, so she turned him into stone instead. Serpents: The gods