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Lampus

In Greek mythology, Lampus or Lampos (Ancient Greek: Λάμπος), a Greek verb meaning "glitter" or "shine", may refer to:

Human

Canine (dog)

Equine (horse)

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.[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

  1. ^ Apollodorus, 2.1.5
  2. ^ Homer, Iliad 3.147; Apollodorus, 3.12.3; Dictys Cretensis, 4.22
  3. ^ Homer, Iliad 15.525
  4. ^ Statius, Thebaid 7.759
  5. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 181
  6. ^ Homer, Iliad 23.246; Tzetzes, 138; ad Lycophron, 17
  7. ^ Fulgentius, Mythologiarum libri 1.12
  8. ^ Homer, Iliad 8.185
  9. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 30
  10. ^ Pausanias, 6.4.10

References