Cephalus

Cephalus (Ancient Greek: Κέφαλος Kephalos means "head") 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.
 * Cephalus, son of Deion/Deioneos, husband of Procris.

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.