Peteon
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 38.444, 23.412
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: Peteon was a town of ancient Boeotia, mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad.
History
Peteon was a town of ancient Boeotia, mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad. It was situated near the road from Thebes to Anthedon. Strabo contradicts himself in one passage placing Peteon in the Thebais, and in another in the Haliartia.