Qualla: Calydon https://qualla.com/calydon en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/6/calydon-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Calydon https://qualla.com/calydon Calydon: Introduction https://qualla.com/calydon/ Photo credit Tony Esopi, CC BY-SA 3.0. Homer called it lovely. Strabo, writing centuries later, said Calydon and its neighboring city Pleuron had once been the ornament of Greece — and then, in the same breath, noted that both had sunk into insignificance by his time. The arc from ornament to ruin is the story of Calydon: a city so embedded in Greek mythology that the gods themselves took notice of it, and so caught up in the political machinery of the ancient world that it was eventually emptied out by imperial decree.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/6/calydon-wp/sqz6-calydon-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Calydon: The City of Meleager and the Boar https://qualla.com/calydon/ Photo credit Antiquefort, CC BY-SA 4.0. In Greek mythology, Calydon was founded by Aetolus — the same mythical ancestor from whom the region takes its name — on land previously held by the Curetes tribe. Aetolus named the city after his son Calydon. From the beginning, the Calydonians and the Curetes were in conflict, ...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/6/calydon-wp/sqz6-calydon-the-city-of-meleager-and-the-boar.mp3 0:06 2 full Calydon: A Contested City in a Contested Land https://qualla.com/calydon/ Photo credit Elekes Andor, CC BY-SA 4.0. In the historical period, Calydon changed hands repeatedly. By 391 BC it was in the possession of the Achaeans — the exact circumstances unclear, though it likely passed to those Achaeans who had been settled at nearby Naupactus after the Peloponnesian War. Pressed hard by the Ac...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/6/calydon-wp/sqz6-calydon-a-contested-city-in-a-contested-land.mp3 0:06 3 full Calydon: Artemis Laphria and What Augustus Took https://qualla.com/calydon/ Photo credit Elekes Andor, CC BY-SA 4.0. Calydon was the center of the cult of Artemis Laphria — a particular aspect of Artemis associated with wilderness and the spoils of the hunt, the "Laphrios" aspect that the Aetolians revered throughout their region. The goddess had a sanctuary at Calydon, and her cult statue was ...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/6/calydon-wp/sqz6-calydon-artemis-laphria-and-what-augustus-took.mp3 0:06 4 full Calydon: What the Excavations Found https://qualla.com/calydon/ Photo credit Glen Scarborough from The Central Coast, Australia, CC BY 2.0. The site of ancient Calydon lies north of the modern village of Evinochori in the Aetolia-Acarnania regional unit. Archaeological excavations have uncovered a Hellenistic theatre of an unusual square plan — most ancient theatres followed a roughly semicircular form, making the sq...

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