Lamos

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Lamos (Latinized as Lamus) is a name variously applied in Greek mythology and in classical geographical writings.

  • Lamos, a small river on the summit of Mount Helicon according to Pausanias (9.31.7). A note in the Loeb edition indicates some prefer the reading Olmios.
  • Lamos (Cilicia), a river in Cilicia (still called Lamas or Lamuzo).
  • Lamos, a son fathered on Omphale by Heracles according to Diodorus Siculus (4.31.8) and Ovid in his Heroides (9.54).
  • Lamos, name associated with the Laestrygonian city of Telepylus in the Odyssey
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