Calydon
Americannoun
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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
Where Calydon afforded fattest soil720 They bade him choose to his own use a farm Of fifty measured acres, vineyard half, And half of land commodious for the plow.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
Driven from Calydon for homicide, he goes with Deianeira to Trachis.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
Many brave deeds were his in foreign lands; and when he came home again to Calydon, he brought with him a fair young wife, gentle Cleopatra, daughter of Idas the boaster.
From Hero Tales by James Baldwin
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