Kalydon (mythology)

Kalydon ( Greek  Καλυδών ) is a figure in Greek mythology .

He is the son of Aitolos and Pronoe and founder and namesake of the city of Kalydon in Aetolia . His brother Pleuron founded the eponymous Aetolian city of Pleuron . With Aiolia he had two daughters: Epicaste , who later married Agenor , and Protogeneia .

swell

• Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 7, 7.

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Kalydon 1) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 939 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Kalydon in the Greek Myth Index (English)