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Phleon

Φλέων

(Φλέων), i. e. the giver of plenty, is a surname of Dionysus, describing the god as promoting the fretility of plants and trees. (Aelian, V.H. 3.41.) A similar surname of the god is Phlyus (from φλύεν; Schol. ad Apollon. iho; 1.115.)

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.