Editing Cephalus

{{Short description|Ancient Greek name}}
'''Cephalus''' or '''Kephalos''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|ɛ|f|əl|ə|s}}; {{langx|grc|Κέφαλος}}) is the son of Hermes,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Logeion |url=https://logeion.uchicago.edu/%CE%9A%CE%AD%CF%86%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%82 |access-date=2024-07-10 |website=logeion.uchicago.edu}}</ref> husband of Eos<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hesiod, Theogony, line 963 |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0130:card=963 |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref> and a hero-figure in [[Greek mythology]]. Cephalus carried as a [[Theophory|theophoric name]] by historical persons. The root of this name is {{lang|el|κεφαλ}}, meaning "head".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Logeion |url=https://logeion.uchicago.edu/%CE%BA%CE%B5%CF%86%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%AE |access-date=2024-07-10 |website=logeion.uchicago.edu}}</ref>

==Mythological==

* [[Cephalus (son of Hermes)|Cephalus]], son of [[Hermes]] and [[Herse]].<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], 3.14.3</ref>
* [[Cephalus (son of Deione/Deioneus)|Cephalus]], son of [[Deioneus|Deion/Deioneos]], husband of [[Procris]].<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' 125</ref>

==Historical==

*Cephalus, son of Lysanias from [[Syracuse, Sicily|Syracuse]] (5th century BCE), a wealthy [[metic]] and elderly arms manufacturer living in [[Athens]] who engages in dialogue with [[Socrates]] in [[Plato]]'s ''[[Republic (dialogue)|Republic]]''. He was the father of orator [[Lysias]], philosopher [[Polemarchus]] and Euthydemus.
*Cephalus, Athenian orator who flourished after the time of the [[Thirty Tyrants]].
*Cephalus, a [[Molossian]] who sided with [[Perseus of Macedon|Perseus]] in the [[Third Macedonian War]].<ref>Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology [https://books.google.com/books?id=H8QPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA191&dq=Cephalus+Antinous] by William Smith</ref>

==See also==
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* [[List of commonly used taxonomic affixes]]

== Notes ==
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== References ==

* [[Gaius Julius Hyginus]], ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/206 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Pseudo-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}}. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].

==External links==
*[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]] {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20121009101554/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0676.html Cephalus]}}

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