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CALYDON (Kaw&iav)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 79 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CALYDON (See also:Kaw&iav)  , an See also:ancient See also:town of See also:Aetolia, according to See also:Pliny, 71 See also:Roman m. from the See also:sea, on the See also:river Euenus . It was said to have been founded by See also:Calydon, son of Aetolus; to have been the See also:scene of the See also:hunting, by See also:Meleager and other heroes, of the famous Calydonian See also:boar, sent by See also:Artemis to See also:lay See also:waste the See also:fields; and to have taken See also:part in the Trojan See also:war . In See also:historical times it is first mentioned (391 B.C.) as in the See also:possession of the See also:Achaeans, who retained it for twenty years, by the assistance of the Lacedaemonian See also:king, Agesilaus, notwithstanding the attacks of the Arcarnanians . After the See also:battle of See also:Leuctra (371 B.C.) it was restored by See also:Epaminondas to the Aetolians . In the See also:time of See also:Pompey it was a town of importance; butAugustus removed its inhabitants to See also:Nicopolis, which he founded to commemorate his victory at See also:Actium (31 B.C.) . The walls of Calydon are almost certainly to be recognized, in the Kastro of Kurtaga . These comprise a See also:circuit of over 2 m., with one large See also:gate and five smaller ones, and are situated on a See also:hill on the right or See also:west See also:bank of the Euenus . Remains of large See also:terrace walls outside the town probably indicate the position of the See also:temple of Artemis Laphria, whose See also:gold and See also:ivory statue was transferred to See also:Patras, together probably with her See also:ritual . This included a See also:sacrifice in which all kinds of beasts, See also:wild and tame, were driven into a wooden pyre and consumed . See W . M . See also:Leake, Travels in N .

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Greece, i. p . I09, iii. pp . 533 sqq . W . J . Woodhouse, Aetolia, pp . 95 sqq . (E .

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