Lamos
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Lamos is a name variously applied in Greek mythology and in classical geographical writings.
- Lamos, a small river on the summit of Mount Helicon according to Pausanias (9.31.7). A note in the Loeb edition indicates some prefer the reading Olmios.
- Lamos (Cilicia)Lamos (Cilicia)The Lamus also Lamos, river is a river of ancient Cilicia, now in Mersin Province, Turkey. The river formed the boundary between Cilicia Campestris and Cilicia Trachea, and later between Cilicia Aspera and Cilicia Propria...
, a river in Cilicia (still called Lamas or Lamuzo). - Lamos, a son fathered on OmphaleOmphaleIn Greek mythology, Omphale was a daughter of Iardanus, either a king of Lydia, or a river-god. Omphale was queen of the kingdom of Lydia in Asia Minor; according to Bibliotheke she was the wife of Tmolus, the oak-clad mountain king of Lydia; after he was gored to death by a bull, she continued...
by Heracles according to Diodorus Siculus (4.31.8) and Ovid in his Heroides (9.54). - Lamos, name associated with the LaestrygonianLaestrygoniansThe Laestrygonians are a tribe of giant cannibals from ancient Greek mythology. Odysseus, the main character of Homer's Odyssey, visited them during his journey back home to Ithaca...
city of Telepylus in the Odyssey