Phlegra

, or Phlegræus Campus , a place of Macedonia, afterwards called Pallene , where the giants attacked the gods and were defeated by Hercules. The combat was afterwards renewed in Italy, in a place of the same name near Cumæ. Silius Italic us , bk. 8 , li. 538 ; bk. 9 , li. 305 .— Strabo , bk. 5 .— Diodorus , bks. 4 & 5.— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 10 , li. 151 ; bk. 12 , li. 378 ; bk. 15 , li. 532 .— Statius , bk. 5 , Sylvæ , poem 3, li. 196 .