Lamus (mythology)

For other uses, see Lamus (disambiguation).

In Greek mythology, Lamus (Ancient Greek: Λάμος Lamos) may refer to the following personages:

• Lamus, one of the 3,000 river gods, children of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys. He was the Cilician river-god who fathered the naiads, Lamides, caretakers of the child Dionysus. These nymphs were maddened by Hera.^[1]
• Lamus, a Lydian son of Heracles by Queen Omphale.^[2][3] In some accounts, he was called Agelaus.^[4]
• Lamus, a defender of Thebes against the Seven Against Thebes. He was killed by Parthenopaeus who pierced him in the face during the battle.^[5]
• Lamus, a Trojan warrior who was killed by Thoas, leader of the Aetolians, during the Trojan War.^[6]
• Lamus, a former king of the Laestrygonians,^[7][8] the cannibalistic giants who were later met by the hero Odysseus in one of his journeys.^[9] He was the son of Poseidon.^[10][11][12] Lamus was said to have built Formiae, the ancient seat of his people.^[13]
• Lamus, an ally of Turnus, the man who opposed Aeneas in Italy. He was killed by Nisus.^[14]