Lampon
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Lampon of Thrasycles · Lampon son of Pytheas
spoken of as
1 expressionLampon of Thrasycles1 mention
The Histories (Greek)
When the Greeks who had come in their ships with Leutychides the Lacedaemonian were encamped at Delos, certain messengers came to them there from Samos, Lampon of Thrasycles, Athenagoras son of Archestratides, and Hegesistratus son of Aristagoras.
in the texts
Birds
A contemporary soothsayer cited as an example of swearing by a bird rather than a god.
And even now Lampon swears by the goose whenever he wishes to deceive someone.
And don't spare him, were he an eagle from out of the clouds, were it Lampon himself or the great Diopithes.
The Histories
A leading man of Aegina who urges Pausanias to impale Mardonius's head in revenge for Leonidas, and is sharply rebuked for the suggestion.
There was at Plataea in the army of the Aeginetans one Lampon, son of Pytheas, a leading man of Aegina.
When Leonidas was killed at Thermopylae, Mardonius and Xerxes cut off his head and set it on a pole;
“son of Cleombrotus, you have done a deed of surpassing greatness and glory;