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.Apollodorus, 2.1.5 Lampus, an elder of Troy, one of the sons of King Laomedon and Strymo,Homer, Iliad 3.147; Apollodorus, 3.12.3; Dictys Cretensis, 4.22 father of Dolops.Homer, Iliad 15.525 Lampus, one of the fifty Thebans who laid an ambush against Tydeus and were killed by Apollo.Statius, Thebaid 7.759
Canine (dog)
Lampus, one of Actaeon's dogsHyginus, Fabulae 181
Equine (horse)
Lampus, one of the two horses that drove the chariot of Eos, the other one being PhaethonHomer, Iliad 23.246; Tzetzes, 138; ad Lycophron, 17 Lampus, one of the four horses of Helios, alongside Erythreus, Acteon and Philogeus.Fulgentius, Mythologiarum libri 1.12 Lampus, one of the four horses of Hector, alongside Aethon, Xanthus and PodargesHomer, Iliad 8.185 Lampus, one of the mares of DiomedesHyginus, Fabulae 30
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.Pausanias, 6.4.10 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).
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References
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