Charops (nickname)
Charops ( Greek Χάροψ ) is an epithet of the Greek god and hero Heracles in Boeotia .
Heracles Charops was worshiped on Mount Laphystion near the local sanctuary of Zeus . Pausanias tells of a statue erected in his honor, which stood at the point where Heracles is said to have brought Kerberus out of the underworld .
In Plutarch Charops is referred to as the son of Hercules and the father of Isis called.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Charops 3 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, column 886 ( digitized version ).
- Carl Robert : Charops 4th In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen antiquity (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Col. 2184.