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Leucippus excelled in strength and valour, and was thus well known among the Lycians and their neighbours as well, who were constantly plundered and mistreated by him. He incurred the wrath of the goddess Aphrodite after an unspecified offence, and so the goddess made him fall in love with his own sister (who is not named).
Leucippus, a Lesbian prince and one of the sons of King Macareus, and the leader of a colony at Rhodes [18] Leucippus, son of Naxos, the eponym of Naxos, and king of the island. His son was Smerdius. [19] Leucippus, a Cyrenean prince as son of King Eurypylus of Cyrene and Sterope, daughter of Helios. He was the brother of Lycaon. [20]
She united the girl to Leucippus, and they consorted for a while. But the girl was already betrothed to another man, to whom someone reported the matter. The groom went on to inform Xanthius, without telling him the name of the seducer. Xanthius went straight to his daughter's chamber, where she was together with Leucippus right at the moment.
This myth of a sworn companion to Artemis breaking their vow is similar to the myth of the Arcadian princess Callisto, [10] while Aphrodite's ire and revenge due to their rejection of love parallels the story of Hippolytus, whose central theme is the antagonism between Aphrodite and Artemis and the mutually-excluding domains they represent.
Leucippus was born to Lamprus, the son of Pandion, and Galatea, daughter of Eurytius the son of Sparton. He is notable for having undergone a magical gender transformation by the will of the goddess Leto. Due to his transition from female to male, Leucippus can be considered a transgender male figure in Greek mythology.
The story of Aphrodite's birth from the foam was a popular subject matter for painters during the Italian Renaissance, [290] who were attempting to consciously reconstruct Apelles of Kos's lost masterpiece Aphrodite Anadyomene based on the literary ekphrasis of it preserved by Cicero and Pliny the Elder. [291]
The story of Pisidice, and particularly the variation of the story that takes place in Asia Minor, seems to be part of an old Aeolic epic tradition about Achilles raiding Anatolian and Aegean cities, a tradition whose traces can be seen as early as the epic poems Iliad and the lost Cypria.
The couple was only able to be united through divine intervention. Alexis and Meliboea's story is recorded in the works of Servius, a Latin grammarian of the fifth century. The myth is an aetiological story explaining the reason behind the goddess Aphrodite as worshipped under the epithets Automate and Epidaetia in Ephesus.