What is "sandon"

Sandon may refer to:

• Sandon, Essex
• Sandon, Hertfordshire
• Sandon, Staffordshire
• Sandon, British Columbia
• Sandon, Victoria
• Sandon County, New South Wales
• Sandon, ancient Hittite deity
• Gotska Sandön, a Swedish island

People with the name Sandon:

• Sandon (philosopher), (1st century BC) Orphic philosopher
• Viscount Sandon
• Henry Sandon, English antiques expert
• John Sandon, English antiques expert
• Flo Sandon's, Italian singer
• Johnny Sandon, English singer

See also Sandown, Sandon Point, New South Wales, Sandonbank and Sandon Half Tide Dock.

Sandon (; 1st century BC) is an Orphic philosopher mentioned in the Suda. He is described briefly as a son of Hellanikos. He has been identified with the Sandon of Tarsus mentioned by Pseudo-Lucian in the essay Macrobii ("Long Lives"), who was the father of Athenodorus (the Stoic philosopher and the tutor of Augustus Caesar). His father Hellanicus may have been the Orphic philosopher of the late 2nd century mentioned by Damascius.

Sandon (sometimes spelled Sandes, Sandan or Sanda) was a god in ancient Tarsus, visually represented as a mitre-wearing human form carrying a sword, a flower or (commonly) an axe who stands on the back of a horned and winged lion. Associated primarily with war and weather, Sandon was the chief god in the Cilician pantheon from at least the beginning of the second millennium BC. The ancient Greeks and Romans equated Sandon with Herakles. A large monument to Sandon existed at Tarsus at least until the third century AD.