Cephalus
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Cephalus or Kephalos (Script error: No such module "IPAc-en".; Template:Langx) is an ancient Greek masculine name. The name is connected with the Greek word Script error: No such module "Lang". (kephalē), meaning "head".[1][2]
The name was borne by several figures in Greek mythology, most notably the husband of Procris and the beloved of Eos, and by a number of historical figures in classical antiquity.
Mythological figures
Several mythological figures are named Cephalus:
- Cephalus, son of Hermes and Herse. In Pseudo-Apollodorus, Herse bears Cephalus to Hermes.[3]
- Cephalus, son of Deioneus, husband of Procris and beloved of Eos.[4]
The myth of Cephalus and Procris was especially well known in ancient and later literature. In one common version, Cephalus accidentally kills Procris with a hunting spear after a sequence of suspicion, disguise and misunderstanding.[4]
Historical figures
The name was also borne by several historical figures:
- Cephalus of Syracuse, son of Lysanias, a wealthy metic and arms manufacturer living in Athens. He appears as an elderly interlocutor of Socrates in the opening book of Plato's Republic.[5] He was the father of the orator Lysias, the philosopher Polemarchus, and Euthydemus.
- Cephalus, an Athenian orator who flourished after the time of the Thirty Tyrants.[6]
- Cephalus, a Molossian who supported Perseus of Macedon during the Third Macedonian War.[6]
Etymological use
The Greek root Script error: No such module "Lang". is also found in scientific and taxonomic terms derived from Greek, especially words referring to the head or head-like structures.[2]
See also
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References
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Sources
- 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 ToposText Project.
- Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library, translated by Sir James George Frazer. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, 1921. Template:ISBN. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- William Smith, ed. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: John Murray, 1870.
External links
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- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology: Cephalus at the Internet Archive
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