ASPLE´DON(Ἀσπληδών: Eth. Ἀσπληδόνιος), also called SPLEDON, an ancient city of Boeotia, mentioned by Homer ( Il. 2.510), distant 20 stadia from Orchomenus. The river Melas flowed between the two cities. (Strab. 9. p. 416; Plin. Nat. 4.7. s. 12; Steph. B. s. v.;Etym. M. s. v.) Strabo says (l. c.) that it was subsequently called EUDEIELUS(Εὐδείελος), from its sunny situation; but Pausanias (Paus. 9.38.9) relates that it was abandoned in his time from a want of water. The town is said to have derived its name from Aspledon, a son of Poseidon and the nymph Mideia. The site of Aspledon is uncertain. Leake ( Northern Greece, vol. 2. p. 162) places it at Tzamáli, but Forchhammer ( Hellenica, p. 177), with more probability, at Avro-Kastro.