Editing Leucothea (section)

==Cultural allusions==
* Leucothea is mentioned by [[John Milton]] in the ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' scene where archangel Michael descends to Adam and Eve to declare that they must no longer abide in Paradise (second edition, 1674, book XI, lines 133–135):{{quote|Meanwhile,<br>To re-salute the world with sacred light,<br>Leucothea waked;…<ref>John Milton, ''The English Poems'' (Wordsworth Poetry Library, 2004).</ref>}}
* Leucothea is mentioned by [[Robert Graves]] in ''[[The White Goddess]]''.
* In [[Ezra Pound]]'s [[Cantos]], she is one of the goddess figures who comes to the poet's aid in ''Section: Rock-Drill'' (Cantos 85–95). She is introduced in Canto 91 as "Cadmus's daughter":{{quote|As the sea-gull Κάδμου θυγάτηρ said to Odysseus<br>KADMOU THUGATER<br>"get rid of parap[h]ernalia"}}
* She returns in Cantos 93 ("Κάδμου θυγάτηρ") and 95 ("Κάδμου θυγάτηρ/ bringing light ''per diafana''/ λευκὁς Λευκόθοε/ white foam, a sea-gull… 'My bikini is worth yr/ raft'. Said Leucothae… Then Leucothea had pity,/'mortal once/ Who now is a sea-god…'"), and reappears at the beginning of Canto 96, the first of the ''Thrones'' section ("Κρήδεμνον…/ κρήδεμνον…/ and the wave concealed her,/ dark mass of great water.").
* Leucothea appears twice in ''Dialoghi con Leucò'' (Dialogues with Leucò) by [[Cesare Pavese]].
* ''[[Leucothoé]]'' was the first work by the Irish playwright [[Isaac Bickerstaffe]] published in 1756.
* Leucothea becomes a metaphor, in [[Marcel Proust]]'s ''In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower'', for the mist that covers a young man's gaze when looking on the beauty of young women: "…a cloud that had re-formed a few days later, once I had met them, muting the glow of their loveliness, often passing between them and my eyes, which saw them now dimmed, as through a gentle haze, reminiscent of Virgil's Leucothea."<ref>Marcel Proust, ''In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower'', trans. James Grieve (New York: Penguin Books, 2002), 526.</ref>
* Leukothea is a poem by Keith Douglas.<ref>Keith Douglas, ''The Complete Poems'' with introduction by Ted Hughes (Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref>