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Kalydôn
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Kalydon
English
Proper noun
en Calydon.
en 1853 George Grote History of Greece http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CPILAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA485&dq=%22Th%C3%AAseus%22&ei=TQOPSqSJIYvyyASy1sGUBw#v=onepage&q=%22Th%C3%AAseus%22&f=false 485 So in regard to the legends of Greece, — Troy, Thêbes, the Argonauts, the Boar of Kalydôn, Hêraklês, Thêseus, Œdipus, — the conviction still holds in men’s minds, that there must be something true at the bottom ; and many readers of this work may be displeased, I fear, not to see conjured up before them the Eidôlon of an authentic history, even though the vital spark of evidence be altogether wanting.¹