Aspledon

{{Short description|City of ancient Boeotia}}

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Aspledon ({{langx|grc|Ἀσπληδών}}), also called Spledon (Σπληδών), was a city of ancient Boeotia, mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships of the Iliad,{{Cite Iliad|2.510}} distant 20 stadia from Orchomenus. The river Melas flowed between the two cities.{{Cite Strabo|ix. p.416}}{{Cite Pliny|4.7.12}}{{Cite Stephanus|s.v.}}Etym. M. s.v. Strabo says that it was subsequently called Eudeielus or Eudeielos (Εὐδείελος), from its sunny situation; but Pausanias relates that it was abandoned in his time from a want of water.{{Cite Pausanias|9|38|9}}

The town took its name from Aspledon, a son of Poseidon and the nymph Mideia.Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. [https://topostext.org/work/241#A135.8 Aspledon]

Its site is near modern Pirgos.{{Cite DARE|29470}}