Lamus (mythology)

For other uses, see Lamus (disambiguation).

In Greek mythology, Lamus (Ancient Greek: Λάμος Lamos) may refer to the following personages:

* Lamus, one of the 3,000 river gods, children of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys. He was the Cilician river-god who fathered the naiads, Lamides, caretakers of the child Dionysus. These nymphs were maddened by Hera.[1]
* Lamus, a Lydian son of Heracles by Queen Omphale.[2][3] In some accounts, he was called Agelaus.[4]
* Lamus, a defender of Thebes against the Seven Against Thebes. He was killed by Parthenopaeus who pierced him in the face during the battle.[5]
* Lamus, a Trojan warrior who was killed by Thoas, leader of the Aetolians, during the Trojan War.[6]
* Lamus, a former king of the Laestrygonians,[7][8] the cannibalistic giants who were later met by the hero Odysseus in one of his journeys.[9] He was the son of Poseidon.[10][11][12] Lamus was said to have built Formiae, the ancient seat of his people.[13]
* Lamus, an ally of Turnus, the man who opposed Aeneas in Italy. He was killed by Nisus.[14]

## Notes

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1. ^ Nonnus, 9.28 ff.
2. ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.31.8
3. ^ Ovid, Heroides 9.54 with commentary by Anne Mahoney
4. ^ Apollodorus, 2.7.8
5. ^ Statius, Thebaid 9.764
6. ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, 11.90
7. ^ Homer, Odyssey 10.81
8. ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.223
9. ^ Homer, Odyssey 10.80 ff.
10. ^ Charles Simmons, The Metamorphoses of Ovid Books XIII and XIV 14.233
11. ^ Eustathius ad Homer, Odyssey p. 1649
12. ^ Horace, Carmina 3.17
13. ^ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.9.5
14. ^ Virgil, Aeneid 9.334

## References

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* 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.
* Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59-8\. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
* Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888–1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
* Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. ISBN 978-0674995611. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
* Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
* Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940–1942. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
* Pliny the Elder, The Natural History. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. London. Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 1855. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
* Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia. Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff. Lipsiae. Teubner. 1906. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
* Publius Ovidius Naso, The Epistles of Ovid. London. J. Nunn, Great-Queen-Street; R. Priestly, 143, High-Holborn; R. Lea, Greek-Street, Soho; and J. Rodwell, New-Bond-Street. 1813. Online version 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.
* Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
* Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
* Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. Online version at theio.com
* Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

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