Template:Short description Cephalus or Kephalos (Template:IPAc-en; Template:Langx) is the son of Hermes,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> husband of Eos<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and a hero-figure in Greek mythology. Cephalus carried as a theophoric name by historical persons. The root of this name is {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, meaning "head".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
MythologicalEdit
- Cephalus, son of Hermes and Herse.<ref>Apollodorus, 3.14.3</ref>
- Cephalus, son of Deion/Deioneos, husband of Procris.<ref>Hyginus, Fabulae 125</ref>
HistoricalEdit
- Cephalus, son of Lysanias from Syracuse (5th century BCE), a wealthy metic and elderly arms manufacturer living in Athens who engages in dialogue with Socrates in Plato's 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 in the Third Macedonian War.<ref>Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology [1] by William Smith</ref>
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- 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.
- 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. Template:ISBN. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.