Leucothoe

A daughter of the Babylonian king Orchamus and Eurynome, was beloved by Apollo; but her amour was betrayed by the jealous Clytia to her father, who buried her alive; whereupon Apollo metamorphosed her into an incense shrub.1

Leucothoe is in some writers only another form for Leucothea.2

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References

Notes

  1. Ovid. Metamorphoses iv, 208 ff.
  2. Hyginus. Fabulae, 125.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.