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; 20. 238
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 12. 3
- ^ Dictys Cretensis, 4. 22
- ^ Homer, Iliad, 15. 525
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. 1. 5
- ^ Statius, Thebaid, 7
- ^ 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
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