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{{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]]'',<ref>{{Cite Iliad|2.510}}</ref> distant 20 [[stadion (unit)|stadia]] from [[Orchomenus (Boeotia)|Orchomenus]]. The river [[Melas (river of Boeotia)|Melas]] flowed between the two cities.<ref name=Strabo>{{Cite Strabo|ix. p.416}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Pliny|4.7.12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Stephanus|''s.v.''}}</ref><ref>Etym. M. ''s.v.''</ref> [[Strabo]] says that it was subsequently called '''Eudeielus''' or '''Eudeielos''' (Εὐδείελος), from its sunny situation;<ref name=Strabo/> but [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] relates that it was abandoned in his time from a want of water.<ref>{{Cite Pausanias|9|38|9}}</ref>
The town took its name from Aspledon, a son of [[Poseidon]] and the nymph [[Mideia]].<ref>[[Stephanus of Byzantium]], ''Ethnica'' s.v. ''[https://topostext.org/work/241#A135.8 Aspledon]''</ref>
Its site is near modern [[Pyrgos, Boeotia|Pirgos]].<ref>{{Cite DARE|29470}}</ref>
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[[Category:Populated places in ancient Boeotia]]
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