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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.
• Lampus, an elder of Troy, one of the sons of King Laomedon and Strymo, father of Dolops.
• Lampus, one of the fifty Thebans who laid an ambush against Tydeus and were killed by Apollo.

Canine (dog)

• Lampus, one of Actaeon's dogs

Equine (horse)

• Lampus, one of the two horses that drove the chariot of Eos, the other one being Phaethon
• Lampus, one of the four horses of Helios, alongside Erythreus, Acteon and Philogeus.
• Lampus, one of the four horses of Hector, alongside Aethon, Xanthus and Podarges
• Lampus, one of the mares of Diomedes

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.
• 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

• Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Dictys Cretensis, from The Trojan War. The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer, Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Fabius Planciades Fulgentius, Mythologies translated by Whitbread, Leslie George. Ohio State University Press.1971. Online version at theio.com
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN 978-0198145318. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid translated by John Henry Mozley. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid. Vol I-II. John Henry Mozley. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1928. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

• Set index articles on Greek mythology
• Princes in Greek mythology
• Trojans
• Mythological Thebans
• Horses in mythology