Aspledon (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Aspledon (Ancient Greek: Ἀσπληδών, romanized: Asplēdṓn) was regarded as the founder of Aspledon, an ancient town of the Minyans in Boeotia.[1][2] He was the son of either 1) Poseidon[3] and the nymph Midea[2][4]; 2) Presbon[3] and Sterope[5]; and 3) Orchomenus and a brother of Clymenus and Amphidocus[2][3].

Notes

  1. ^ Pausanias, 9.38.9 citing Chersias
  2. ^ a b c Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Aspledōn
  3. ^ a b c Eustathius ad Homer, Iliad p. 272 (1.511)
  4. ^ Pausanias, 9.38.9 citing Chersias & 39.1
  5. ^ Etymologicum Magnum 157.32

References

  • Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
  • Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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