Lampon

Lampon (Ancient Greek: Λάμπων) was an Athenian soothsayer and interpreter of dreams and oracles. Together with Xenocritus he founded the colony of Thurii in Italy at 444 BC or 443 BC.^[1] He was called "the expounder".^[2] His father most probably was Olympiodorus.^[3] Diodorus Siculus wrote about how the colony has been established.^[4]

Cratinus satirized him in his comedy Δραπετίδες. Aristophanes also mentions him. Plutarch has a story of his foretelling the ascendancy of Pericles over Thucydides and his party.^[5]

References

[1] Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Lampon

[2] Elegy and Iambus, Volume I

[3] W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus

[4] Diodorus Siculus, Library, 12.10

[5] A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, Lampon

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