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Lampus

In Greek mythology, Lampus or Lampos may refer to:

  • Lampus, an elder of Troy, one of the sons of King Laomedon, father of Dolops.
  • Lampus, a son of Aegyptus, who married and was killed by the Danaid Ocypete.
  • Lampus, one of the fifty Thebans who laid an ambush against Tydeus and were killed by him.
  • Lampus, one of Actaeon's dogs
  • Lampus, name shared by several mythical horses:
    • one of the two horses that drove the chariot of Eos, the other one being Phaethon
    • one of the four horses of Helios, alongside Erythreus, Acteon and Philogeus.
    • one of the four horses of Hector, alongside Aethon, Xanthus and Podarges
    • one of the mares of Diomedes

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

Usage examples of "lampus".

And it was Ilios, sometimes called Ilus, father of Laomedon, who in turn would be father to Priam, Tithonus, Lampus, Clytius, and Hicetaon, who had found the star-stone in front of his tent one morning and who recognized it for what it was.

Near Antenor stand Priam’s honored brothers Lampus and Clytius, and gray-bearded Hicetaon—who until this day had honored Ares, the god of war, above all other beings—and behind Hicetaon those most respected of Trojan elders, Panthous and Thymoetes.

At that moment the valiant soldier Dolops son of Lampus sprang upon Lampus was son of Laomedon and for his valour, while his son Dolops was versed in all the ways of war.

The two sages, Ucalegon and Antenor, elders of the people, were seated by the Scaean gates, with Priam, Panthous, Thymoetes, Lampus, Clytius, and Hiketaon of the race of Mars.

Ilus begat Laomedon, and Laomedon begat Tithonus, Priam, Lampus, Clytius, and Hiketaon of the stock of Mars.