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Lampon

Λάμπων

(Λάμπων).

1. A native of Aegina, son of Pytheas [PYTHEAS], mentioned by Herodotus (9.78) as having urged Pausanias after the battle of Plataea to avenge the death of Leonidas by insulting and mutilating the corpse of Mardonius.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.