Baucis (Greek mythological character)

LC control no.	no2023108697
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Baucis (Greek mythological character) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Bauci (Greek mythological character) Βαυκίς (Greek mythological character) Vaukis (Greek mythological character) Baukis (Greek mythological character)
See also	Philemon (Greek mythological character) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Other standard no.	Q23034980
Biography/History note	In Greek mythology, Baucis and her husband Philemon were an elderly Phrygian couple who provided hospitality to the disguised gods Zeus and Hermes and were rewarded by being saved from a flood and changed into intertwining trees.
Associated place	Phrygia
Special note	Non-Latin script reference not evaulated.
Found in	Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von. Philémon & Baucis, ℗2006. Beller, Manfred. Philemon und Baucis in der europäischen Literatur, 1967. Espeland, Pamela. The story of Baucis and Philemon, ©1981. Gounod, Charles. Filèmone e Bauci, ℗1988. Britannica online, September 29, 2023 (Philemon and Baucis, in Greek mythology, a pious Phrygian couple who hospitably received Zeus and Hermes when their richer neighbours turned away the two gods, who were disguised as wayfarers. As a reward, they were saved from a flood that drowned the rest of the country; their cottage was turned into a temple, and at their own request they became priest and priestess of it. Long after, they were granted their wish to die at the same moment, being turned into trees) GreekMythology.com, September 29, 2023 (Baucis and her husband Philemon were an old couple that appeared in a myth that is lesser known among those of Greek and Roman mythology. They lived in the region of Tyana, which may have been in Phrygia. The gods Zeus and Hermes (or Jupiter and Mercury in Roman mythology) had been disguised as peasants and asked for a place to spend the night; all the inhabitants of Tyana rejected them. They finally reached the poor cottage of the old couple, who unlike their rich neighbours accepted them graciously and offered them the best hospitality they could with their simple means) <https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Mortals/Baucis/baucis.html> Dictionary.com, September 29, 2023 (Baucis, Classical Mythology: an aged Phrygian peasant woman who, with her husband Philemon, offered hospitality to the disguised Zeus and Hermes: they were rewarded by being saved from a flood and changed into trees) Wikipedia, September 29, 2023 (In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Baucis and Philemon (Greek: Φιλήμων και Βαυκίς = Philēmōn kai Vaukis, Philēmōn kai Baukis [in roman]), were an old married couple in the region of Tyana, which Ovid places in Phrygia, and the only ones in their town to welcome disguised gods Zeus and Hermes (in Roman mythology, Jupiter and Mercury respectively), thus embodying the pious exercise of hospitality, the ritualized guest-friendship termed xenia, or theoxenia when a god was involved)