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Spodius

Σπόδιος

(Σπόδιος), a surname of Apollo at Thebes, derived from σποδός, ashes, because his altar consisted of the ashes of the victims which had been sacrificed to him. (Paus. 9.11.5.)

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.