Lampon ( Ancient Greek: Λάμπων) 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. [1] He was called "the expounder". [2] His father most probably was Olympiodorus. [3] Diodorus Siculus wrote about how the colony has been established. [4]
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. [5]