Βαυκις
A Phrygian woman who was married to Philemon, a very poor peasant. They welcomed Zeus and Hermes to their cottage one day when the latter were making their way through Phrygia in the guise of travellers. The rest of the inhabitants would not take the two strangers in and Baucis and Philemon were the only ones to offer hospitality. In their anger, the gods sent a storm over the whole country which left the cottage with the two old people unharmed. The cottage became a temple and because Baucis and Philemon had asked to end their days together Zeus and Hermes turned them into two trees which stood side by side in front of the temple.
{E2 DICTIONARY OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY}
Table of Sources:
- Ovid, Met. 8, 616ff.
- Lact. Narr. 8, 7-9