Lampus

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

• 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 him.^[6]
• Lampus, one of Actaeon's dogs^[7]
• 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