Ἐλεών

Eleon, Heleon

Translated by David Whitehead1 Nov 2000Vetting: high4 revisions

4 words

Name of a city.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐλεών· ὄνομα πόλεως.

Betacode

*)elew/n: o)/noma po/lews.

Mentioned by Homer. In Boeotia (central Greece), near Tanagra; cf. Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. (A 'village' in Strabo; and classified by the Copenhagen Polis Centre among Boeotia's 'pre-Hellenistic settlements not attested as poleis'.)
Likewise or similarly in other lexica.