Leucon

In Greek mythology, the name Leucon (Λεύκων) may refer to:

• Leucon, a son of Themisto by either Athamas^[1][2] or Poseidon.^[3] His children were Erythras,^[4] Pisidice^[5] and Euippe (mother of Eteocles by Andreus).^[6] He was said to have died of a sickness.^[7]

• Leucon, one of Actaeon' s dogs.^[8][9]

• Leucon, in Plutarch's Life of Aristides, one of the seven heroes to whom the Athenians, according to an oracle, had to sacrifice if they wanted to overcome their foes in the imminent battle. The other six were Androcrates, Peisandrus, Damocrates, Hypsion, Actaeon and Polyeidus.^[10]

References

1. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 9. 2
2. Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 9. 314
3. Hyginus, Fabulae, 175
4. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 6. 21. 11
5. Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Argynnion
6. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9. 34. 9
7. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9. 34. 7
8. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3. 218
9. Hyginus, Fabulae, 181
10. Plutarch, Aristides, 11. 3