Lamos (son of Heracles)

Lamos ( Greek  Λάμος , also Λάμιος , Lamios) is a figure in Greek mythology .

As Apollonios of Aphrodisias reports in his 4th book of Karika , a story of Caria , in Stephanos of Byzantium , Lamos was the son of Heracles and Omphale . He drove out his half-brother Bargasos , the son of Heracles with the barge and eponym of the city of Bargasa .

The Malian city ​​of Lamia in central Greece was named after Lamos . In the Etymologicum magnum it is written Lamios.

literature

• Hans von Geisau: Lamos 2. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 3, Stuttgart 1969, column 467.
• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Lamos 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, column 1822 ( digitized version ).

Remarks

1. ↑ Apollonios of Aphrodisias with Stephanos of Byzantium sv Βάργασα (= FGrHist 740 F 2).
2. ↑ Stephanos of Byzantium sv Λάμια ; Ovid , Heroides 9.54; Diodorus 4.31.
3. ↑ Etymologicum magnum 555.51 (sv Λάμια ).