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Amydon

Ἀμυδών

Amydon (Ἀμυδών), a town in Macedonia on the Axius, from which Pyraechmes led the Paeonians to the assistance of Troy. The place is called Abydon by Suidas and Stephanus B. (Hom. Il. 2.849; comp. Strab. p. 330; Juv. 3.69.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. 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.