InGreek mythology, theLampads orLampades (Ancient Greek:Λαμπάδες, fromAncient Greek:λαμπάς,romanized: lampás,lit. 'torch')^[1] are torch-bearingnymphs who follow the goddessHecate.

According to a scholium onHomer'sIliad, the Lampades are among the types of nymphs mentioned by the lyric poetAlcman (fl. seventh century BC); the scholiast describes them as the nymphs "who carry torches and lights withHecate",^[2] a description whichTimothy Gantz claims was probably a creation of the scholiast, rather than of Alcman or another writer.^[3] According toClaude Calame, the scholium's connection of these nymphs with Hecate is likely related to the common association of the goddess with torches.^[4]

In Greekhexameters fromSelinus dating to the fourth century BC, there is mention of "goddesses, bright with torches",^[5] whichSarah Iles Johnston interprets as referring to the Lampades, pointing to their attestation as torch-carrying goddesses, and their association with Hecate, who is mentioned immediately after these figures in the text.^[6]

• Calame, Claude,Alcman: Introduction, texte critique, témoignages, traduction et commentaire, Rome, Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 1983.Internet Archive.
• Campbell, David A.,Greek Lyric, Volume II: Anacreon, Anacreontea, Choral Lyric from Olympus to Alcman,Loeb Classical Library No. 143, Cambridge, Massachusetts,Harvard University Press, 1988.ISBN 978-0-674-99158-3.Online version at Harvard University Press.Internet Archive.
• Gantz, Timothy,Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two volumes:ISBN 978-0-8018-5360-9 (Vol. 1),ISBN 978-0-8018-5362-3 (Vol. 2).
• Johnston, Sarah Iles, "Goddesses with Torches in the Getty Hexameters and Alcman fr. 94", inZeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Vol. 191 (2014), pp. 32–35.Internet Archive.
• Jordan, David R., and Roy D. Kotansky, "Ritual Hexameters in the Getty Museum: Preliminary Edition", inZeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Vol. 178 (2011), pp. 54–62.JSTOR 41616753.
• Liddell, Henry George,Robert Scott,A Greek-English Lexicon, revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie,Clarendon Press Oxford, 1940.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Page, Denys Lionel, Sir,Poetae Melici Graeci, Oxford University Press, 1962.ISBN 978-0-198-14333-8.
• Serafini, Nicola, "La Dea Ecate, le Torce e le Ninfe Lampadi: Un Frammento di Alcmane da Rivalutare (Fr. 63 Davies)", inQuaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica, Vol. 104, No. 2 (2013), pp. 11–22.JSTOR 24645051.

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