Charops
(
Χάροψ), bright-eyed or joyful-looking, a surname of Heracles, under which he had a statue near mount Laphystion on the spot where he was believed to have brought forth Cerberus from the lower world. (
Paus. 9.34.4.)
There are also two mythical beings of this name. (
Hom. Od. 11.427; Hom.
Hymn. in Merc. 194;
Hyg. Fab. 181.)
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