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Clytie. Daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys, Clytie loved Apollo and spent each day watching his sun chariot traverse the sky. But Apollo preferred Leucothea (sometimes called Clytie's sister). The jealous Clytie told Leucothea’s father, King Orchamus, of his daughter’s liaison with the god. In his anger, Orchamus had Leucothea buried alive. As Apollo grieved for the girl, his tears changed her body into a frankincense tree. Clytie herself wasted away until she was transformed into a heliotrope (sunflower), a flower that constantly faces the sun.



OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.