Leucothea
deity figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Ino · Matuta
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Ino, daughter of Cadmus, deified as Leucothea by the Greeks and Matuta by the Romans
Leucothea, who was Ino, and her son Palaemon, all Greece worships — as well as Hercules, Aesculapius, the sons of Tyndareus, our own Romulus, and very many others, whom they think received into heaven as it were new and enrolled citizens.
What, then — shall Ino be held a goddess, and called Leucothea by the Greeks and Matuta by us, since she is the daughter of Cadmus, while Circe, Pasiphae, and Aeetes, born of Perseis the daughter of Ocean, with the Sun for their father, shall not be held in the number of the gods?
Orations
Sea goddess, identified as one of Fortune's names among sailors.
To her the farmers have given the name of Demeter, the shepherds of Pan, the sailors of Leucothea, the helmsmen of the Dioscuri.