Tags: Mythological Figure.
Laelaps (Greek: Λαῖλαψ gen.: Λαίλαπος) (Lelaps Lalaps) was a female Greek mythological dog who never failed to catch what she was hunting. In one version of Laelaps’ origin she was a gift from Zeus to Europa. The hound was passed down to King Minos. Procris’s husband Cephalus decided to use the hound to hunt the Teumessian fox a fox that could never be caught. This was a paradox: a dog who always caught his prey and a fox that could never be caught.
