Salganeus (Ancient Greek: Σαλγανεύς) or Salganea was a town upon the eastern coast of ancient Boeotia, and between Chalcis and Anthedon.
The name Salganeus is derived from a Boeotian, who served as pilot to the Persian fleet of Xerxes I, and was put to death upon suspicion of treachery, because no outlet appeared to the channel of the Euripus; but the Persian commander, having found out his mistake, erected a monument on the spot, where the town was afterwards built.
[1][2][3] Salganeus was considered an important place from its commanding the northern entrance to the Euripus.
[4][5] The god Apollo had the epithet Salganeus (Σαλγανεύς) because of the town.
This article about a location in ancient Boeotia is a stub.