Son of Andraemon, lord over Pleuron and steep Calydon after the house of Oeneus fell — leader of the Aetolians at Troy when Meleager was dead and Oeneus no longer lived.1
Homer makes him captain of the Aetolians who dwelt in Pleuron, Olenus, Pylene, Chalcis by the sea, and rocky Calydon — forty ships under a king honoured of his folk even as a god. Poseidon once took his likeness to rally Idomeneus when the Cretan wavered.2
Apollodorus records that when Odysseus was condemned to exile after the slaughter of the suitors, he came to Aetolia as a guest of Thoas son of Andraemon, married Thoas' daughter, and left a son Leontophonus before dying in old age — a tradition in which the king of Pleuron and Calydon shelters the exiled lord of Ithaca.3⚖
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the spine ignites as you read · hover a bond on the card — every mention of them lights in the story