Leucippus

Family: Greek · Role: father of Phoebe and Hilaira · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.9

Life events

• Castor and Pollux abducted Leucippus’s daughters and married them.(Apollodorus, Library 3.11 · 📍 Messene)
  • With: Castor Pollux Phoebe Hilaira
  • “And wishing to marry the daughters of Leucippus, they carried them off from Messene and wedded them;”

Apollodorus, Library 1.9

• parent: Perieres “by whom he had sons, to wit, Aphareus and Leucippus, and Tyndareus, and also Icarius.”

Apollodorus, Library 2.7

• parent: Heracles “by Eurytele he had Leucippus”
• parent: Eurytele “by Eurytele he had Leucippus”

Apollodorus, Library 3.10

• parent: Gorgophone “and she bore Tyndareus, Icarius, Aphareus, and Leucippus.”
• child: Hilaira “Leucippus had daughters, Hilaira and Phoebe”
• child: Phoebe “Leucippus had daughters, Hilaira and Phoebe”
• child: Arsinoe “Besides them Leucippus begat Arsinoe”

Apollodorus, Library 3.11

• child: Phoebe “And wishing to marry the daughters of Leucippus, they carried them off from Messene and wedded them; and Pollux had Mnesileus by Phoebe, and Castor had Anogon by Hilaira.”
• child: Hilaira “And wishing to marry the daughters of Leucippus, they carried them off from Messene and wedded them; and Pollux had Mnesileus by Phoebe, and Castor had Anogon by Hilaira.”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.