Leucippides
Λευκιππίδες
(Λευκιππίδες), i. e. the daughters of the Messenian prince Leucippus. (Eur. Hel. 1467.) Their names were Phoebe and Hilaeira, and they were priestesses of Athena and Artemis, and betrothed to Idas and Lynceus, the sons.of Aphareus; but Castor and Polydeuces being charmed with their beauty, carried them off and married them. (Apollod. 3.12.8, 10.3; Paus. 1.18.1.) When the sons of Aphareus attempted to rescue their beloved brides, they were both slain by the Dioscuri. (Hyg. Fab. 80; Lactant. 1.10; Ov. Ep. 16.327, Fast. 5.709; Theocrit.22.137,&c.; Propert. 1.2.15,&c.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.