Leucippus

Family: unknown · Role: wooer · First appears: The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 61–80

In the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, Leucippus is named among the rivals wooing the daughter of Azan, alongside Apollo, Ischys, Phorbas and Ereutheus. The passage also names “the wife of Leucippus” and says that one wooer went on foot while another rode in a chariot, but the lacuna leaves the details unclear. The Catalogues of Women identifies Arsinoe as his daughter.

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Life events

• Apollo is described as wooing the daughter of Azan alongside several named rivals.(Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1)
  • With: Apollo the daughter of Azan (Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1) Ischys Elatius Phorbas Triops Ereutheus the wife of Leucippus (Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1)
  • “Shall I sing of you as wooer and in the fields of love, how you went wooing the daughter of Azan along with god-like Ischys the son of well-horsed Elatius, or with Phorbas sprung from Triops, or with Ereutheus, or with Leucippus and the wife of Leucippus.... ((LACUNA)) ....you on foot, he with his chariot, yet he fell not short of Triops.”

The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 61–80

• child: Arsinoe “Arsinoe was the daughter of Leucippus, Perieres’ son”

Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1

• married with the wife of Leucippus (Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1) “Shall I sing of you as wooer and in the fields of love, how you went wooing the daughter of Azan along with god-like Ischys the son of well-horsed Elatius, or with Phorbas sprung from Triops, or with Ereutheus, or with Leucippus and the wife of Leucippus.... ((LACUNA)) ....you on foot, he with his chariot, yet he fell not short of Triops.”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.