Lampus

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In Greek mythology, Lampus (Greek: Λάμπος Lampos) may refer to:

  • Lampus, one of the fifty Thebans who laid an ambush against Tydeus and were killed by him.[6]
  • Lampus, name shared by several mythical horses:
    • one of the two horses that drove the chariot of Eos, the other one being Phaethon[8]
    • one of the four horses of Helios, alongside Erythreus, Acteon and Philogeus.[9]
    • one of the four horses of Hector, alongside Aethon, Xanthus and Podarges[10]
    • one of the mares of Diomedes[11]

Lampus is also the name of a Macedonian horse breeder and Olympic victor, whose statue Pausanias describes in his Description of Greece.[12]

Notes

  1. Homer, Iliad 3, 147; 20. 238
  2. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 12. 3
  3. Dictys Cretensis, 4. 22
  4. Homer, Iliad, 15. 525
  5. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. 1. 5
  6. Statius, Thebaid, 2. 623
  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

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