#leuke

[genericpuff]

to commemorate her arrival <3

[hermesmoly]

Servius, note to Eclogue 7.61:

Leuce, daughter of Oceanus, was the most beautiful of the nymphs. Pluto fell in love with her and carried her off to the underworld. After she died with him at the end of her life, Pluto ordered a leuce tree to grow in the Elysian fields of the pious, both as a solace for love and for memory, from which, as has been said, Hercules crowned himself on his return from the underworld.

When you loved her so much a whole tree grew out the love and memory of her and then you see her immortalized through your hero nephew

[egrisian-medea]

Is anyone interested in my "Makaria is the daughter of Hades WITH LEUKE (and not Persephone)" propaganda?

[a-gnosis]

What role would Leuke have in your comics? Also do you think in the original myth, Hades kidnapped her or did she go willingly? Also how could she die as an immortal?

If I had included Leuke in my comics she probably would have been Hades' first lover who died. However, that would have made Hades a slightly different character than the one I wanted to make. I didn't want my Hades to have experienced that kind of grief of what it's like to really lose someone, because that would have made him a more sad character than I wanted. I also thought that Leuke's myth was too similar to that of Persephone (that is, Hades abducts her to the Underworld to make her his lover. The difference is that Leuke is mortal, eventually dies and becomes a poplar tree), so I decided not to include her.

Leuke is mentioned only once, in a note by Servius to Virgil's Eclogues, and I'm pretty sure that the text says that she was abducted? I have memories of having read an English translation once, but right now I can only find it in Latin. She could of course have been mentioned in earlier sources that didn't survive, but when earlier texts list names of Okeanides (Hesiod's Theogony, and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter) she is never mentioned. She is also mortal despite that the Okeanides seem to be immortal. She is like the kind of nymphs that Aphrodite describes in the Homeric Hymn 5 to Aphrodite:

They do not take after either mortals nor immortals; they live long and eat immortal food, and among the immortals they move nimbly in the beautiful dance. (translated by Athanassakis)

Then again, the Greco-Roman myths are hardly consistent. They are full of varying stories that sometimes contradict each other, because they were never meant to form a cohesive whole.

[afroyows]

Don’t be ridiculous, Hec. Of course I’m not in love with that girl. Look at her and then look at me. I am a god. I am the terrifying God of the Underworld. I am a king. She is just an Oceanid. She’s not even that beautiful. She’s not on my level. She’s not even immortal. Besides, what even is "love"? I’ve never heard of it in my life. What is it, Hecate? I truly don’t know. If I were in love, I would know it. So, I’m not. Yes, that's right.

[muselessdump]

GODS' School Color Scheme

Look at this beauty! This palette is everything

[just-some-art-guy]

The first cut is always the deepest.

(Hades & Leuke)

[nerdasaurus1200]

IT’S FINALLY OUT