Aspledon (Ancient Greek: Ἀσπληδών), also called Spledon (Σπληδών), was a city of ancient Boeotia, mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships of the Iliad,[1] distant 20 stadia from Orchomenus. The river Melas flowed between the two cities.[2][3][4][5] Strabo says that it was subsequently called Eudeielus or Eudeielos (Εὐδείελος), from its sunny situation;[2] but Pausanias relates that it was abandoned in his time from a want of water.[6] The town took its name from Aspledon, a son of Poseidon and the nymph Mideia.[7]
Its site is near modern Pirgos.[8]
- ^ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.510.
- ^ a b Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. p.416. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 4.7.12.
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
- ^ Etym. M. s.v.
- ^ Pausanias (1918). "38.9". Description of Greece. Vol. 9. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Aspledon
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.