Leucippus
Role: mythological figure · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 18
Leucippus was the son of Perieres and Gorgophone, and the brother of Aphareus. The brothers succeeded their father as kings of the Messenians after his death.
In Book 1, a painting by Polygnotus depicted the marriage of Leucippus’s daughters. Book 2 identifies Arsinoe as his daughter and the mother of Æsculapius. In Book 3, the Messenians are cited as saying Leucippus was the son of Perieres. Book 4 also mentions paintings of Leucippus alongside Aphareus, Hilaira, Phœbe, and Arsinoe.
Relationship record
Life events
- Perieres had Aphareus and Leucippus by Gorgophone.(Book 4 · Chapter 2)
- With: Perieres Gorgophone Aphareus
- “Perieres had by Gorgophone the daughter of Perseus Aphareus and Leucippus”
Book 1 · Chapter 18
- with Polygnotus (Polygnotus painted a scene concerning the marriage of Leucippus's daughters.) “Here too is a painting by Polygnotus of the marriage of the daughters of Leucippus”
Book 2 · Chapter 26
- child: Arsinoe “Æsculapius the son of Arsinoe, the daughter of Leucippus.”
Book 3 · Chapter 12
- child: Arsinoe “the temple of Arsinoe, the daughter of Leucippus”
Book 3 · Chapter 26
- parent: Perieres “if it was from Leucippus the son of Perieres, as the Messenians say”
- child: Arsinoe “Æsculapius here most of all the gods, as the son of Arsinoe the daughter of Leucippus.”
Book 4 · Chapter 2
- parent: Perieres “And Perieres had by Gorgophone the daughter of Perseus Aphareus and Leucippus who, on his death, succeeded their father as kings of the Messenians”
- parent: Gorgophone “And Perieres had by Gorgophone the daughter of Perseus Aphareus and Leucippus”
- siblings with Aphareus “And Perieres had by Gorgophone the daughter of Perseus Aphareus and Leucippus who, on his death, succeeded their father as kings of the Messenians”
Book 4 · Chapter 3
- child: Arsinoe “Arsinoe the daughter of Leucippus”
Book 4 · Chapter 31
- siblings with Aphareus “There are paintings also of Leucippus the brother of Aphareus, and of Hilaira, Phœbe, and Arsinoe.”
- child: Arsinoe “a conduit called Arsinoe, which got its name from the daughter of Leucippus”
- with Omphalion (Omphalion executed the paintings; Leucippus was one of the depicted figures.) “There are paintings also of Leucippus the brother of Aphareus, and of Hilaira, Phœbe, and Arsinoe.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.