Cephalus

Cephalus (Greek Κέφαλος, head, is meant: the with the beautiful home), ruler of Thorikos, was a son of Hermes and Herse and husband of Procris. As a lover of Eos, he was said to be the father of Phaethon.

Myths

As his wife Procris Cephalus caught in infidelity with Pteleon, he remained their camp afterwards away for eight years. But it also meant that he himself had approached in the form of the stranger to her fidelity to the test; the gift of being able to transform any, had been given to him by Eos, who was in love with him.

Procris fled offended in any case to Crete. From there, she returned with an infallible hunting spear and a dog that could not escape game. Be it that she these gifts of King Minos - had received, or from the hunting goddess Artemis - for the cure of the disease: they reconciled with their equally hunting enthusiast, husband and made him the two marvels to the present. However, they should have Kephalos ashamed before themselves by themselves seduced him in the form of a handsome stranger. Later Kephalos borrowed the tireless dog Amphitryon, to provide the Teumessischen fox.

In another version Prokris died by that spear: Cephalus she had - which was hiding in the bushes - kept for hunting wild game. By the Areopagus afterwards sentenced to perpetual exile, he participated in the train of the Thebans against the Teleboans in part, founded on the foothills of Lefkada Apollo a sanctuary and threw himself to atone for that murder from the rock. The cause of his separation from Prokris but usually told that Eos kidnapped him: The Goddess of Dawn robbed the beautiful man, as she had done with so many others before.

On the island of Kefalonia, named after him there was talk of a Cephalus, who united there with a bear - one of the manifestations of Artemis. Sometimes Creusa is called as mother of Cephalus. One more original genealogy according to which he was said to be as Athenian hero the son of Deion and Diomede the.