Lyco and Orphe (Ancient Greek:Λυκώ καὶ Ὄρφη,romanized: Lukṓ kaì Órphē) is a pair of sisters fromGreek mythology. Their brief story survives in the works ofMaurus Servius Honoratus, a Latin grammarian of the early fifth century AD.

They were the daughters ofAmphithea andDion, the queen and king ofLaconia. They had a third sister namedCarya.

OnceApollo, the god of prophecy, paid a visit to Dion and his family. He was so well-received that he gave all three of Dion's daughters the gift of prophecy, under the condition that they would never betray the gods or seek after forbidden things. Later,Dionysus visited the family and fell in love with Carya, so that he visited again in order to see her. But Lyco and Orphe guarded Carya, and tried to prevent Dionysus from wooing her. Dionysus then reminded them of their promise to Apollo, and drove them mad. As the two sisters reached the top of MountTaygetus in their raging madness, they were transformed into rocks.^[1][2]

• Pentheus
• Psalacantha
• Metamorphoses in Greek mythology

• Maurus Servius Honoratus,In Vergilii carmina comentarii. Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii; recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen. Georgius Thilo. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1881.Online version available at perseus.tufts.
• Smith, William (1873). John Murray (ed.).A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. New-Street Square and Parliament Street,London: Spottiswoode and Co.

• Metamorphoses into inanimate objects in Greek mythology
• Mythology of Dionysus
• Mythological Laconians
• Classical oracles
• Mythological Greek seers
• Princesses in Greek mythology
• Deeds of Apollo
• Sister duos

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