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
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.
Yet Mars from earth, and for a less disgrace Could sweep the Lapithæ, and Heaven's great Sire Doomed ancient Calydon and OEneus' race To rue the vengeance of Diana's ire.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax
Meleager was the son of Œneus and Althea, king and queen of Calydon.
From The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies by White, Catherine Ann
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