Cephalus

Cephalus in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

(*Ke/falos). 1. A son of Hermes and Herse, was carried off by Eos, who became by him the mother of Tithonus in Syria. (Apollod. 3.14.3.) Hyginus (Hyg. Fab. 160, 270) makes him a son of Hermes by Creusa, or of Pandion, and Hesiod (Hes. Th. 986) makes Phaeton the son of Cephalus instead of Tithonus. On the pediment of the kingly Stoa in the Cera...

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Cephalus in Wikipedia

Cephalus (Greek: Κέφαλος Kephalos) is an Ancient Greek name, used both for the hero-figure in Greek mythology and carried as a theophoric name by historical persons. The word kephalos is Greek for "head", perhaps used here because Cephalus was the founding "head" of a great family that includes Odysseus. It could be that Cephalus means the hea...

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