Summary
In Greek mythology, Cephalus (/ˈsɛfələs/; Ancient Greek: Κέφαλος Kephalos) was a member of the Athenian royal family as the son of Princess Herse and Hermes.
Family edit
In some accounts, Cephalus was said to be the son of Hermes by Creusa[1] or of Pandion I.[2]
Mythology edit
Because of Cephalus's great beauty, Eos (Dawn) fell in love with him. He was eventually carried off and ravished by her in Syria.[3] Consorting with the goddess, by some accounts Cephalus became the father of Tithonus, the father of Phaethon.[4] Another version of the myth provides that Phaethon was said to be his son instead of Tithonus.[5]
On the pediment of the kingly Stoa in the Kerameikos at Athens, and on the temple of Apollo at Amyclae, the carrying off of Cephalus by Hemera (not Eos) was represented.[6] According to a single myth, Eosphorus was also called the son of Cephalus and Eos.[7]
Notes edit
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 160
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 270.
- ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca 11.390.
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.14.3; Brill's New Pauly, s.v. Cephalus (1).
- ^ Hesiod, Theogony 986; Brill's New Pauly, s.v. Cephalus (1).
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 1.3.1.
- ^ Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.42.4.
References edit
- 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.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Astronomica 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.
- 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.
- Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940–1942. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.