Lampus
In Greek mythology, Lampus or Lampos (Ancient Greek: Λάμπος), a Greek verb meaning "glitter" or "shine", may refer to:
Human
- Lampus, a son of Aegyptus, who married and was killed by the Danaid Ocypete.[1]
- Lampus, an elder of Troy, one of the sons of King Laomedon and Strymo,[2] father of Dolops.[3]
- Lampus, one of the fifty Thebans who laid an ambush against Tydeus and were killed by Apollo.[4]
Canine (dog)
Equine (horse)
- Lampus, one of the two horses that drove the chariot of Eos, the other one being Phaethon[6]
- Lampus, one of the four horses of Helios, alongside Erythreus, Acteon and Philogeus.[7]
- Lampus, one of the four horses of Hector, alongside Aethon, Xanthus and Podarges[8]
- Lampus, one of the mares of Diomedes[9]
Other uses
[edit]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.[10]
- 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
[edit]- ^ Apollodorus, 2.1.5
- ^ Homer, Iliad 3.147; Apollodorus, 3.12.3; Dictys Cretensis, 4.22
- ^ Homer, Iliad 15.525
- ^ Statius, Thebaid 7.759
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 181
- ^ Homer, Iliad 23.246; Tzetzes, 138; ad Lycophron, 17
- ^ Fulgentius, Mythologiarum libri 1.12
- ^ Homer, Iliad 8.185
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 30
- ^ Pausanias, 6.4.10
References
[edit]- 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.
- 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.
- Fabius Planciades Fulgentius, Mythologies translated by Whitbread, Leslie George. Ohio State University Press.1971. Online version at theio.com
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. 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.
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid translated by John Henry Mozley. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid. Vol I-II. John Henry Mozley. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1928. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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