Aspledon
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]
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