Aspledon (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Aspledon () was regarded as the founder of Aspledon, an ancient town of the Minyans in Boeotia.Pausanias, 9.38.9 citing Chersias He was the son of either 1) PoseidonEustathius ad Homer, Iliad p. 272 (1.511) and the nymph Midea;Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. AspledōnPausanias, 9.38.9 citing Chersias & 39.1 2) Presbon and Sterope;Etymologicum Magnum 157.32 and 3) Orchomenus and a brother of Clymenus and Amphidocus.

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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. . 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.