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; 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, 7
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