Charops

Bright-eyed or joyful-looking. A surname of Heracles, under which he had a statue near Mount Laphystion on the spot where he was believed to have brought forth Cerberus from the lower world.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece ix, 34.4.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.