Greek mythology A major branch of classical mythology, Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the Ancient Greece, ancient Greeks, and a genre of Ancient Greek folklore. These stories concern the Cosmogony, origin and Cosmology#Metaphysical co ...

, Leucippus (

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic peri ...

: Λεύκιππος ''Leukippos,'' "white horse") was the eight king of

Sicyon Sicyon (; el, Σικυών; ''gen''.: Σικυῶνος) or Sikyon was an ancient Greek city state situated in the northern Peloponnesus between Corinth and Achaea on the territory of the present-day regional unit of Corinthia. An ancient mona ...

who reigned for 53 years.

Eusebius Eusebius of Caesarea (; grc-gre, Εὐσέβιος ; 260/265 – 30 May 339), also known as Eusebius Pamphilus (from the grc-gre, Εὐσέβιος τοῦ Παμφίλου), was a Greek historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christian ...

, ''Chronographia'
63
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Family

Leucippus was the son and heir of King

Thurimachus In Greek mythology, Thurimachus (Ancient Greek: Θουρίμαχος) was the seventh king of Sicyon who reigned for 45 years.Eusebius, ''Chronographia'63/ref> Family Thurimachus was the son and heir of King Aegyrus, descendant of the city's fo ...

, son of

Aegyrus In Greek mythology, Aegyrus (Ancient Greek: Αἴγυρος) or Aegydrus was the sixth king of Sicyon who reigned for 34 years. Family Aegyrus was the son and heir of King Thelxion, descendant of the city's founder Aegialeus (an autochthon). ...

, son of Thelxion, son of Apis, son of

Telchis :''"Telchis" is also the singular form of "Telchines".'' In Greek mythology, Telchis ( grc, Τελχίς means "one of the Telchines") may refer to two different or the same characters: * Telchis or Telchin, the third king of Sicyon who reigned for ...

, son of Europs, son of Aegialeus (an autochthon).

Mythology

According to

Pausanias Pausanias ( el, Παυσανίας) may refer to: *Pausanias of Athens, lover of the poet Agathon and a character in Plato's ''Symposium'' *Pausanias the Regent, Spartan general and regent of the 5th century BC *Pausanias of Sicily, physician of th ...

' account, Leucippus had only one child, a daughter

Calchinia In Greek mythology, Calchinia (Ancient Greek: Καλχινίᾳ) was a Sicyonian princess as a daughter of King Leucippus of Aegialea. She consorted with the sea-god Poseidona and bore him a son, Peratus. Leucippus reared his grandson and with the ...

. She bore

Poseidon Poseidon (; grc-gre, Ποσειδῶν) was one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and myth, god of the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses.Burkert 1985pp. 136–139 In pre-Olympian Bronze Age Greece, he was venerated as a ch ...

a son,

Peratus In Greek mythology, Peratus (Ancient Greek: Πέρατος means "wanderer, emigrant"), also called Eratus (Ἔρατος means "lovely"), was the 10th king of Sicyon who reigned for 46 years.Eusebius, ''Chronographia'63/ref> Family Peratus was ...

, who was reared by Leucippus and inherited the kingdom.Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio'' 2.5.7 In some account, Leucippus was succeeded by

Messapus Messapus, (Greek: Μέσσαπος, ''Messapos'') a character in Virgil's ''Aeneid'', appears in Books VII to XII of the Latin epic poem. He was a son of Neptune, a famous tamer of horses, and king of Etruria, known for being one "whom no one can ...

as the ninth king of Sicyon.

Notes

References

, ''Description of Greece'' with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.
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*Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library
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