Lamia (disambiguation)

Lamia is a daemon in Greek mythology.

Lamia may also refer to:

Mythology

 * Lamia (daughter of Poseidon), who was the mother, by Zeus, of the Libyan Sibyl
 * Lamia, another name for Sybaris, a legendary man-eating female beast near Delphi
 * Lamia (Basque mythology), a Basque mythological female creature
 * Lamia, type of slavic dragon in Bulgarian folklore

Animals

 * Chiruromys lamia, a mouse from New Guinea
 * Lamia (genus), a genus of longhorn beetles

Film and television

 * Lamia (Stardust), the main antagonist in the 2007 fantasy film Stardust played by Michelle Pfeiffer
 * A character from the television series Neverwhere
 * A character from the television series Betterman
 * A character from the 1984 Polish movie Sexmission
 * The demon haunting the main character in the 2009 movie Drag Me To Hell
 * A character from the puppet series X-Bomber (renamed to Star Fleet when dubbed for the UK)

Literature

 * "Lamia" (poem), a poem by John Keats
 * Lamia, play by Euripides
 * Lamia, dramatic romance by Thomas Hood
 * Characters who are born as vampires in L. J. Smith's Night World books
 * Lamia a work by the Italian humanist Angelo Poliziano, consisting of an opening oration, in which he offers a fable-tinted history of philosophy
 * A race of vampire-like creatures in the Tim Powers novel The Stress of Her Regard
 * Lamia, a family of characters in the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
 * The spirit of an ancient sword in the Korean manhwa Id
 * The mother of the main female vampire in Whitley Strieber's novel The Hunger

Music

 * "The Lamia", a song on the Genesis album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
 * "Lamia", a song by on the Yamantaka // Sonic Titan album UZU
 * "Lamia", a song by Lord Belial from Enter the Moonlight Gate
 * "Lamia", a song by Nana Kitade from her 13th single "Punk&Baby's"
 * Lamia, work for soprano voice and orchestra by American composer Jacob Druckman
 * Lamia, orchestral work by American composer Edward MacDowell
 * Lamia, symphonic poem by English composer Dorothy Howell

People

 * Lamia (given name), a feminine name of Greek, Arabic, Bulgarian, Basque origin
 * Lamia of Athens (fl. 300 BC), courtesan
 * Lucius Aelius Lamia (died 43 BC), activist during the civic strife at the end of the Roman Republic.
 * Lucius Aelius Lamia (consul 3) (before 43 BCE – 33 CE), Roman consul
 * Lucius Aelius Lamia Plautius Aelianus (c. 45 - 81/96), Roman consul in the year 80
 * Lucius Fundanius Lamia Aelianus (ca 83 - 132/136), Roman consul in 116 and proconsul in 131-132
 * Lucius Plautius Lamia Silvanus (fl. 110–145), Roman consul in 145
 * Lamia al-Hariri, Syrian diplomat
 * Ercole Lamia (died 1591), Italian Roman Catholic bishop of Alessano
 * Georges Lamia (1933–2014), French former football goalkeeper
 * Jenna Lamia, American actress, writer, and award-winning audio book narrator

Places

 * Lamia (city), a city in Greece
 * Lamia River, a river in Uganda

Other uses

 * LaMia, a Venezuelan-Bolivian airline
 * Lamia F.C., a football club based in Lamia, Greece