Calydon
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The only woman aboard was a princess: Atalanta of Calydon, the virgin huntress, who could outrun any man in Greece.
From Time Magazine Archive
He took part in the great Calydonian Hunt, when the King of Calydon called upon the noblest in Greece to help him kill the terrible boar which was laying waste his country.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Not twenty miles away up the gulf lay the Turkish fleet, for Ali had brought it out of the Bay of Lepanto, and anchored in the Bay of Calydon.
From Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima by Hale, John Richard
The chief of Calydon the maid beheld,— Beheld, and lov'd: while heaven his love oppos'd.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.
And afterward he heard of them being in Calydon, hunting the boar that ravaged Œneus’s country.
From The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Colum, Padraic
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