Calydon
Calydon (/ˈkælᵻdɒn/; Greek: Καλυδών; gen.: Καλυδῶνος) was an ancient Greek city in Aetolia, situated on the west bank of the river Evenus, 7.5 Roman miles (approx. 11 km) from the sea.
According to Greek mythology, the city took its name from its founder Calydon, son of Aetolus. Close to the city stood Mount Arakynthos (Zygos), the slopes of which provided the setting for the hunt of the Calydonian Boar. The city housed the important Aetolian sanctuary known as the Laphrion, dedicated to Artemis Laphria and Apollo Laphrios. In 31 BC, the Roman Emperor Octavian removed the population of the city to the new colony of Nicopolis, founded to commemorate his victory at the Battle of Actium earlier that year. At the same time, the Romans removed most of the art and treasures of the city to Patras, including the gold and ivory cultic statue of Artemis.Strabo, in his Geographia, comments on the former beauty of Calydon, which by his time lay desolate: '...Calydon and Pleuron, which are now indeed reduced, though in early times these settlements were an ornament to Greece.'
Calydon (son of Aetolus)
In Greek mythology, Calydon /ˈkælᵻdɒn/ was the eponym of the city Calydon. He was a son of Aetolus and Pronoe and brother of Pleuron. He was married to Aeolia, daughter of Amythaon, and had by her two daughters: Protogeneia, who consorted with Ares, and Epicaste, who married her cousin Agenor.
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Calydon (genus)
Calydon (/ˈkælᵻdɒn/) is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, containing the following species:
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Calydon
Not by sunlight nor by starlight is it shone
Nor to the full moons eye or others beings known
Beyond the hallowed sunset eres a perfect star
Above the sweep of havens showing afar
Unrobed and thus untrammelled
Unveiled and presented feel thy strength
Above the sunsets might there can be seen thy eyes
That were above the sundawn in the fiery skies
Shown at the end of morning wretched in stellar path
Behind the dividing light dark oblivion is cast
Shone from an unforeseen universe lost in sight
Across horizons of endless time behold, beautiful
Forgotten and unknown for countless centuries
The most cosmic spacescape withstood elements beckoning
Ancient moons arise awakening every eve
Gleaming upon cold still shallows reflections emanate
Forth all planets vanish leaving one mighty one
Laden in the tempered hallows glimmering glorious
Sought from the nightsky hallows lies the planet
Calydon
Enhancing her unknown beauty the moons Cerrus, Prax,
Asmon
Constellations forming the only mighty gods
Planetary alignment drawing forth the Elyptic wrath
The walls of the temples
An endless lure of the sacred crypts
Passage granted by chambers
The mountain Ramitar resides within
From the howl of the Kantrell
A surrounding call of the Secton worship
Masses gathering in honour
