Maron
2. A son of Orsiphantus, and brother of Alpheius, a Spartan hero, who had fallen at Thermopylae, and was afterwards honoured with a heroum at Sparta. (Hdt. 7.227; Paus. 3.12.7.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.