Son of Aetolus by Pronoe and brother of Calydon, after whom two cities of Aetolia were named. By Xanthippe, daughter of Dorus, he fathered a son, Agenor, and three daughters, seeding the line that headed the Aetolian house.1
Aetolus and Pronoe, daughter of Phorbus, had two sons, Pleuron and Calydon, and after them the cities of Aetolia were named. So the eponym of Pleuron is fixed at the head of the Aetolian stock, a son of the wanderer Aetolus who had given the whole land its name. Pleuron is no warrior of saga but a name that becomes a place, the genealogist's hinge at the source of his people.2
Pleuron wedded Xanthippe, daughter of Dorus, and begat a son, Agenor, and three daughters — Sterope, Stratonice, and Laophonte. The single marriage seeds the branch from which the Aetolian line descends.3
His memory reached as far as Sparta. Beside a sanctuary of Zeus of Fair Wind stood a hero-shrine of Pleuron, raised because the sons of Tyndareus were descended on their mother's side from him: for Asius, in his poem, made Thestius — the father of Leda — the son of Agenor, the son of Pleuron. By this reckoning Pleuron's blood ran through Leda into the house of the Dioscuri, binding Aetolia to Lacedaemon.4
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