Son of Aetolus by Pronoe and brother of Pleuron; the two Aetolian cities were named after the brothers, so that Calydon is the eponym of the city Calydon.1
When Aetolus settled the land across the gulf that took his name, he had by Pronoe, daughter of Phorbus, two sons, Pleuron and Calydon. Each gave his name to a city of the country, and Calydon stands at the head of the house that bore his name.2
Calydon married Aeolia, daughter of Amythaon, and by her had two daughters, Epicaste and Protogenia. Protogenia lay with Ares and bore Oxylus, so that the war-god's blood entered the Aetolian stock through the founder's own daughter.3
The two Aetolian branches were knit together again in the next generation: Epicaste, daughter of Calydon, was wedded by her cousin Agenor, son of Pleuron, and bore Porthaon and Demonice — and from Porthaon descended the later kings of Calydon.4
Of the man himself the early epic keeps nothing, but the city he names rings through Homer — "rocky Calydon" among the Aetolian towns of the Catalogue, and "lovely Calydon" in the tale of the Curetes and the Aetolians who warred around it — so that the founder survives only in the place that carries his name.5
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the spine ignites as you read · hover a bond on the card — every mention of them lights in the story
