Calydon

Meaning

1. The legendary founding king and eponym of the city of Calydon, whose failure to honor the goddess Artemis in a rite resulted in her sending the Calydonian Boar to lay waste to the city.
2. An Ancient Greek city in the country of Aetolia, north of the Gulf of Patras in western Greece, on the west bank of the river Evenus.

Etymology / origin

From Ancient Greek Καλυδών (Kaludṓn).

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