Medeon
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 38.386, 23.167
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
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History
Medeon was a town of ancient Boeotia, mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad. Medeon is described by Strabo as a dependency of Haliartus, and situated near Onchestos, at the foot of Mount Phoenicium, from which position it was afterwards called Phoenicis.