Mygdon
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Iliad
Phrygian leader recalled by Priam as a past ally against the Amazons.
When I was in Phrygia I saw much horsemen, the people of Otreus and of Mygdon, who were camping upon the banks of the river Sangarios;
Hellenica
A Spartan officer assigned by Agesilaus to command the troops contributed by the allied cities.
Of these, Agesilaus assigned Xenocles and one other to the command of the cavalry, Scythes to the command of the Helot hoplites, Herippidas to the Cyreans, and Mygdon to the troops from the allied cities, and he announced to them that he would immediately lead them by the shortest route to the best parts of the country, his object being to have them begin at once to prepare their bodies and spirits for the fray.