Agamede () was a town of

ancient Lesbos Lesbos or Lesvos ( ) is a Greek island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea. It has an area of , with approximately of coastline, making it the third largest island in Greece and the List of islands in the Mediterranean#By area, eighth largest ...

. According to

Stephanus of Byzantium Stephanus or Stephen of Byzantium (; , ''Stéphanos Byzántios''; centuryAD) was a Byzantine grammarian and the author of an important geographical dictionary entitled ''Ethnica'' (). Only meagre fragments of the dictionary survive, but the epit ...

, it was named after

Agamede Agamede (Ancient Greek: Ἀγαμήδη, meaning "very cunning") was a name attributed to two separate women in classical Greek mythology and legendary history. * Agamede was, according to Homer, a Greek physician acquainted with the healing powe ...

, a daughter of Macar. The town had already disappeared in Pliny's day. The site of Agamede has been identified in 2002 with the ancient ruins on a small hill called Vounaros 3 km north of ancient

Pyrrha In Greek mythology, Pyrrha (; ) was the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora and wife of Deucalion of whom she had three sons, Hellen, Amphictyon, Orestheus; and three daughters Protogeneia, Pandora and Thyia. According to some accounts, Hell ...

.Harissis H.V et al. article in Greek in ''Lesviaka'', 19;195-212, Mytilene 2002. https://www.academia.edu/1937262/The_discovery_of_ancient_Agamede_near_Pyrrha_on_Lesbos_island_in_Greek_

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Populated places in the ancient Aegean islands Former populated places in Greece Ancient Lesbos 2002 archaeological discoveries {{AncientAegean-geo-stub