Pergamus or Pergamos (Ancient Greek: Πέργαμος), or Pergamia[1] or Pergamea,[2] was a town of ancient Crete, to which a mythical origin was ascribed.
According to Virgil, it was founded by Aeneas (see Pergamea),[2] according to Velleius Paterculus by Agamemnon,[3] and according to Servius by the Trojan prisoners belonging to the fleet of Agamemnon.
[4] Lycurgus, the Spartan legislator, was said to have died at this place, and his tomb was shown there in the time of Aristoxenus.
[6] The Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax says that the Dictynnaeum stood in the territory of Pergamus.
The site of Pergamus is tentatively located near modern Ag.