Lampon () was an Athenian soothsayer and interpreter of dreams and oracles. Together with Xenocritus he founded the colony of Thurii in Italy at 444 BC or 443 BC.Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Lampon He was called "the expounder" (ἐξηγητὴς), responsible for interpreting omens, prescribing rituals, and overseeing the religious aspects of the city's foundation.Elegy and Iambus, Volume I His father most probably was Olympiodorus.W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus Diodorus Siculus wrote about how the colony has been established.Diodorus Siculus, Library, 12.10
The term "Thurii-seers" (Thouriomanteis; Θουριομάντεις) referred not to seers from Thurii itself, but to seers such as Lampon who were sent by Athens to assist in founding the colony.Suda, Thouriomanteis
Cratinus satirized him in his comedy Δραπετίδες. Aristophanes also mentions him. Plutarch has a story of his foretelling the ascendancy of Pericles over Thucydides and his party.A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, Lampon
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