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)

• Lampus, one of Actaeon's dogs[7]

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

1. Homer, Iliad 3.147
2. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.12.3
3. Dictys Cretensis, Trojan War Chronicle 4.22
4. Homer, Iliad 15.525
5. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.1.5
6. Statius, Thebaid 7.759
7. Hyginus, Fabulae, 181
8. Homer, Iliad, 23. 246; Tzetzes, Posthomerica, 138; on Lycophron 17
9. Fulgentius, Mythologies, 1. 12
10. Homer, Iliad, 8. 185
11. Hyginus, Fabulae, 30
12. 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.