Lampus
In Greek mythology, Lampus or Lampos (Ancient Greek: Λάμπος), a Greek verb meaning "glitter" or "shine", may refer to:
Human
- Lampus, an elder of Troy, one of the sons of King Laomedon,[1][2][3] father of Dolops.[4]
- Lampus, a son of Aegyptus, who married and was killed by the Danaid Ocypete.[5]
- Lampus, one of the fifty Thebans who laid an ambush against Tydeus and were killed by Apollo.[6]
Canine (dog)
Equine (horse)
- Lampus, one of the two horses that drove the chariot of Eos, the other one being Phaethon[8]
- Lampus, one of the four horses of Helios, alongside Erythreus, Acteon and Philogeus.[9]
- Lampus, one of the four horses of Hector, alongside Aethon, Xanthus and Podarges[10]
- Lampus, one of the mares of Diomedes[11]
Other uses
Lampos is used as a surname of many families in Greece. Otherwise:
- Lampus is also the name of a Macedonian horse breeder and Olympic victor, whose statue Pausanias describes in his Description of Greece.[12]
- Lampos is also the fictitious name of a sacred site in the parish of Rennes-les-Bains (Aude), France, given by the priest Henri Boudet in his work La Vraie Langue Celtique (1886).
Notes
- Homer, Iliad 3.147
- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.12.3
- Dictys Cretensis, Trojan War Chronicle 4.22
- Homer, Iliad 15.525
- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.1.5
- Statius, Thebaid 7.759
- Hyginus, Fabulae, 181
- Homer, Iliad, 23. 246; Tzetzes, Posthomerica, 138; on Lycophron 17
- Fulgentius, Mythologies, 1. 12
- Homer, Iliad, 8. 185
- Hyginus, Fabulae, 30
- Pausanias, Description of Greece, 6.4.10
References
- Dictys Cretensis, from The Trojan War. The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer, Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN 978-0198145318. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
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