Cephalus (/ˈsɛfələs/; Ancient Greek: Κέφαλος Kephalos means "head"[citation needed]) is a name used both for the hero-figure in Greek mythology and carried as a theophoric name by historical persons.
Mythological
Cephalus, son of Hermes and Herse.[1]
Cephalus, son of Deion/Deioneos, husband of Procris.[2]
Historical
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.[3]
^Apollodorus, 3.14.3
^Hyginus, Fabulae 125
^Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology [1] by William Smith
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