Cephalus

Cephalus or Kephalos (; ) is the son of Hermes, and a hero-figure in Greek mythology. Cephalus carried as a theophoric name by historical persons. The root of this name is , meaning "head".

Mythological

• Cephalus, son of Hermes and Herse.
• Cephalus, son of Deion/Deioneos, husband of Procris, loved by Eos.

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.

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. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.

External links

• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology