Calydon
place · 2 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
high Calydon · rocky Calydon
in the texts
Iliad
The besieged city at the center of Phoenix's Meleager exemplum.
"Then was heard the din of battle about the gates of Calydon, and the dull thump of the battering against their walls.
The Curetes and the Aetolians were fighting and killing one another round Calydon - the Aetolians defending the city and the Curetes trying to destroy it.
Poseidon spoke in the likeness and with the voice of Thoas son of Andraimon who ruled the Aetolians of all Pleuron and high Calydon, and was honored in his district [ dêmos] as though he were a god.
Hellenica
Formerly Aetolian town held by the Achaeans and besieged by Acarnanians and their allies.
for the Athenians barred the passage from Calydon to Peloponnesus with their triremes, using Oeniadae as a base.
After this the Achaeans, who were in possession of Calydon—in ancient times an Aetolian town —and had made the people of Calydon Achaean citizens, were compelled to keep a garrison there.