Baucis

In Greek mythology, a pious old couple in Phrygia. When Zeus and Hermes, disguised as wayfarers, had been turned away by the couple's richer neighbors, Philemon and Baucis extended them hospitality. As a reward they were spared when a flood swept the countryside. Their cottage was turned into a temple, and they became priest and priestess of it. Years later they were granted their wish to die at the same moment, and they were turned into trees.

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• A character in the Greek legend of Baucis and Philemon
• Asteroid 172 Baucis
• A Greek poet whose work is now lost, contemporaneous with Sappho and Erinna, apostrophized in Erinna's Distaff.