Calydon

, a city of Ætolia, where Œneus the father of Meleager reigned. The Evenus flows through it, and it receives its name from Calydon the son of Ætolus. During the reign of Œneus, Diana sent a wild boar to ravage the country, on account of the neglect which had been shown to her divinity by the king. All the princes of the age a embled to hunt this boar, which is greatly celebrated by the poets, under the name of the chase of Calydon, or the Calydonian boar. Meleager killed the animal with his own hand, and gave the head to A talant a, of whom he was enamoured. The skin of the boar was preserved, and was still seen in the age of Pausanias, in the temple of Minerva Alea. The tusks were also preserved by the Arcadians in Tegea, and August us carried them away to Rome, because the people of Tegea had followed the party of Antony. These tusks were shown for a long time at Rome. One of them was about half an ell long, and the other was broken. See: Meleager and A talant a . Apollo dor us , bk. 1 , ch. 8 .— Pausanias , bk. 8 , ch. 45 .— Strabo , bk. 8 .— Homer , ♦ Iliad , bk. 9 , li. 577 .— Hyginus , fable 174.— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 8 , fable 4, . ――A son of Ætolus and Pronoe daughter of Phorbas. He gave his name to a town of Ætolia. ♦ Book reference omitted in text.