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Spendon

Σπένδων

(Σπένδων), of Sparta, one of those early musicians whose paeans were sting by the Spartan youths at the Gymnopaedeia, with those of Thaletas and Alcman. (Plut. Lyc. 28)

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.