Calydon (son of Ares)
Appearance
In
romanized: Kaludṓn) is a minor figure from the homonymous region of Calydon, the son of Ares and Astynome. Calydon angered the goddess Artemis when he saw her naked, and was then turned into rock as punishment.[1]
Family
Calydon was born to Ares, the god of war, and a mortal woman named Astynome. Like his name indicates, he was from Calydon, an ancient city in Aetolia, in western Greece.[2]
Mythology
One day, Calydon accidentally came upon the virgin goddess
Calydon's story is only preserved in Pseudo-Plutarch's Treatise on Rivers and Mountains (or De fluviis), a work by an author now known not to have been the actual Plutarch.[5] This second-century work is today classified as paradoxography or a parody of paradoxography, and might have been written with a humourous tone.[6]
See also
References
- . Retrieved June 3, 2024.
- ^ Roscher 1894, s.v. Calydon.
- ^ Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis 22.4
- ^ Grimal 1987, s.v. Calydon 2.
- ^ "Plutarch". The Mineralogical Record - Library. Archived from the original on August 18, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
- ^ Banchich, Thomas (2010). "Pseudo-Plutarch: About Rivers" (PDF). Pseudo-P Revised. Canisius College. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
Bibliography
- ISBN 0-631-13209-0.
- Pseudo-Plutarch (1878). Brady Kiesling (ed.). Names of Rivers and Mountains, in Plutarch, The Moralia. Translated by William Watson Goodwin.
- Roscher, Wilhelm Heinrich (1894). Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie [Detailed dictionary of Greek and Roman mythology] (in German). Vol. II: IACHE-KYZIKOS. Leipzig: Teubner-Verlag.