Leucothoë

Also known as: Leuconoë · Role: maiden · First appears: Fable 39

Life events

• Clytie reveals Leucothoë’s affair, and Hyperion buries Leucothoë alive.(Fable40)
  • With: Clytie Hyperion
  • “Clytie envied her, (for the love of the Sun[40] for her had not been moderate), and, urged on by resentment at a rival, she published the intrigue, and, when spread abroad, brought it to the notice of her father. He, fierce and unrelenting, cruelly buried her alive deep in the ground”
• The Sun transforms Leucothoë’s buried body into a frankincense tree.(Fable40)
  • With: Sun
  • “The Sun, grieved at her misfortune, changed her into the frankincense tree;”

Fable 39

• admirer: Sun (The Sun is enamored of Leucothoë) “Thou lovest her alone”

Fable 40

• courtship with Sun (The Sun is explicitly said to love Leucothoë.) “Clytie envied her, (for the love of the Sun[40] for her had not been moderate), and, urged on by resentment at a rival, she published the intrigue,”
• rivals with Clytie (The pronoun “her” refers to Leucothoë, whose adventure is identified in the preceding synopsis.) “Clytie envied her, (for the love of the Sun[40] for her had not been moderate), and, urged on by resentment at a rival, she published the intrigue,”
• with Clytie (Clytie informs Leucothoë's father about her affair.) “Clytie, in a fit of revenge, discovers the adventure of Leucothoë to her father, who orders her to be buried alive.”
• with Sun (The Sun transforms Leucothoë into a frankincense tree.) “The Sun, grieved at her misfortune, changed her into the frankincense tree; he also despises the informer, who pines away for love of him, and is at last changed into the sunflower.”

⭐ Constellation map → · 📖 Read the original → · 🗂 Character index → · 🕰 Chronicle → · 📍 Places →

Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.