CAULON (Gr. KavXo,via)  ,•a town of the district of the Bruttii, Italy, on the east coast . Its exact site is uncertain (though the name has been given to a modern village), and depends on the identification of the river Sagras . It was the southernmost of the Achaean colonies, founded either by Croton or direct from Greece itself . In the 7th century it was allied with Croton and Sybaris, and its coins, which go back to 550 B.C., prove its importance . It took the side of Athens in the Peloponnesian War . In 388 B.C. it was destroyed by Dionysius, but soon after-wards restored . It was captured during the invasion of Pyrrhus by Campanian troops . Strabo speaks of it as deserted in his time . The erection of the lighthouse at Capo Stilo, on the site of one of the medieval guard towers of the coast, led to the discovery of a wall of Greek origin, and close by of a number of terra-cottas, belonging perhaps to a temple erected in honour of the deities of the sea . Other remains were found at Fontanelle, 21 111. away, including the fragment of a capital of an archaic Greek temple (P . Orsi in Nolizie degli Scavi, 1891, 61) . These buildings may be connected with the Caulon or a village dependent on it .

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