InGreek mythology, the nameLeucus or Leukos (Ancient Greek: Λεῦκος "white") may refer to:

• Leucus, son of the bronze giantTalos ofCrete and foster son of KingIdomeneus. Following the advice ofNauplius, he seducedMeda, wife of Idomeneus, who had been convinced by Nauplius not to stay faithful to her husband, when Idomeneus himself had gone toTrojan War. Leucus eventually killed Meda and took possession of the kingdom; he also killed her daughterCleisithyra, despite the fact that she was betrothed to him by Idomeneus, and two sons of Meda,Iphiclus andLycus (or Leucus). Idomeneus was driven out of Crete by Leucus upon return from Troy.^[1]
• Leucus, a companion ofOdysseus, killed byAntiphus.^[2]
• Leucus, a singer fromLesbos in the army ofDionysus.^[3]
• Leucus, an epithet ofHermes inBoeotia.^[4]

• 11351 Leucus, a Trojan asteroid

• Apollodorus,The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
• Homer,The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.ISBN 978-0674995796.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer,Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920.ISBN 978-0198145318.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Nonnus of Panopolis,Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Nonnus of Panopolis,Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940-1942.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

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• Achaeans (Homer)
• Mythological Cretans
• Epithets of Hermes

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