Leucippus (son of Œnomaus)

Also known as: Leucippus · Role: son of Œnomaus · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 20

Life events

Leucippus disguised himself as a girl and joined Daphne’s hunting party.(Book 8 · Chapter 20)
- With: Daphne Œnomaus
- “He let his hair grow to the Alpheus, and put on woman’s dress and went to Daphne with his hair arranged like a girl’s, and said he was the daughter of Œnomaus, and would like to go a hunting with Daphne.”
Daphne and the maidens discovered Leucippus’s sex and killed him.(Book 8 · Chapter 20 · 📍 Ladon)
- With: Daphne
- “they stripped Leucippus against his will, and discovering his sex they stabbed him and killed him with javelins and daggers.”

parent: Œnomaus “Œnomaus the ruler at Pisa had a son Leucippus”
admired: Daphne “Leucippus who was enamoured of Daphne, and hotly wooed her for his wife”
friends with Daphne “he soon won her strong friendship”
rivals with Apollo “Apollo was jealous of Leucippus’ happiness in love”
with Daphne (Daphne participated in the killing of Leucippus.) “So when Daphne and the other maidens desired to bathe in the Ladon and swim about, they stripped Leucippus against his will, and discovering his sex they stabbed him and killed him with javelins and daggers.”

Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.