Calydonius

A surname of Dionysus, whose image was carried from Calydon to Patrae,1 and of Meleager, the hero in the Calydonian Hunt.2

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References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece vii, 21.1.
  2. Ovid. Metamorphoses viii, 231.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.