Cephalus

Cephalus (/ˈsɛfələs/; Ancient Greek: Κέφαλος Kephalos means "head"^{[citation needed]}) is a name used both for the hero-figure in Greek mythology and carried as a theophoric name by historical persons.

Mythological

• Cephalus, son of Hermes and Herse.^[1]
• Cephalus, son of Deion/Deioneos, husband of Procris.^[2]

Historical

• Cephalus, son of Lysanias from Syracuse (5th century BCE), a wealthy metic and elderly arms manufacturer living in Athens who engages in dialogue with Socrates in Plato's Republic. He was the father of orator Lysias, philosopher Polemarchus and Euthydemus.
• Cephalus, Athenian orator who flourished after the time of the Thirty Tyrants.
• Cephalus, a Molossian who sided with Perseus in the Third Macedonian War.^[3]

See also

• List of commonly used taxonomic affixes

Notes

References

• 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.
• Pseudo-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.

External links

• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology Cephalus

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