PE´RGAMUS
PE´RGAMUS (
Πέργαμος), a town of Crete, to which a mythical origin was ascribed.
According to Virgil it was founded by Aeneas (
Aen. 3.133), according to Velleius Paterculus (1.1) by Agamemnon, and according to Servius by the Trojan prisoners belonging to the feet of Agamemnon (
ad Virg. Aen. l.c.). Lycurgus, the Spartan legislator, was said to have died at this place, and his tomb was shown there in the time of Aristoxenus. (
Plut. Lyc. 32.)
It is said by Servius (
l.c.) to have been near Cydonia, and is mentioned by Pliny (
4.12. s. 20) in connection with Cydonia. Consequently it must have been situated in the western part of the island, and is placed by Pashley at
Plataniá. (
Travels in Crete, vol. ii. p. 23.) Scylax says (p. 18, Huds.) that the Dictynnaeum stood in the territory of Pergamus.