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.
  • Lampus, an elder of Troy, one of the sons of King Laomedon and Strymo, father of Dolops.
  • Lampus, one of the fifty Thebans who laid an ambush against Tydeus and were killed by Apollo.

Canine (dog)

Equine (horse)

  • Lampus, one of the two horses that drove the chariot of Eos, the other one being Phaethon[AI-generated source?]
  • Lampus, one of the four horses of Helios, alongside Erythreus, Acteon and Philogeus.
  • Lampus, one of the four horses of Hector, alongside Aethon, Xanthus and Podarges
  • Lampus, one of the mares of Diomedes

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.
  • 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

  • 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. ISBN0-674-99135-4. .
  • 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.
  • Fabius Planciades Fulgentius, Mythologies translated by Whitbread, Leslie George. Ohio State University Press.1971.
  • Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies.
  • 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. ISBN978-0674995796.
  • Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN978-0198145318. .
  • 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. ISBN0-674-99328-4.
  • Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. .
  • Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid translated by John Henry Mozley. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928.
  • Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid. Vol I-II. John Henry Mozley. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1928.