Sybaris

Character · slug: sybaris

Also: Lamia, Lamiae

Sybaris (Lamia) of Mount Cirphis
Heroes / local monster — Delphic / Phocian aetiology · Antoninus Liberalis (from Nicander) — cave-monster; youth-tribute; Eurybatus destroys her
Empusa and the Lamiae
Local and lesser — daimonic / Hecate’s train; folk-bogey in classical comedy and philosophy · Aristophanic / Philostratean / Diodoran (Empusa; Lamia as child-devouring bogey; Hecate connection)