Aspledon

A son of Poseidon and the nymph Midea;1 according to others, he was a son of Orchomenus and brother of Clymenus and Amphidicus,2 or a son of Presbon and Sterope.3 He was regarded as the founder of Aspledon, an ancient town of the Minyans in Boeotia.

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References

Notes

  1. Chersias, on Pausanias' Description of Greece ix, 38.6.
  2. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Ἀσπληδών.
  3. Eustathius on Homer, p. 272.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.