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ΚΑΛΥΔΩΝ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΙΕΡΑ ΠΟΛΙΣ ΜΕΣΟΛΟΓΓΙΟΥ
Hercules married a second wife, Deianira. He won her hand in marriage by wrestling with the river-god Acheloos, who took the form of a centaur. During the fight, Hercules broke off one of Acheloos' horns.
Once, when Deianira and Hercules were traveling, they came to the Evenus River. A centaur, Nessos, had been appointed ferryman there. As he carried Deianira across, he tried to assault her, and Hercules, hearing her screams, ran to rescue his damsel in distress. Hercules shot the centaur in the heart with one of his arrows.
Just before he died, Nessos set up his revenge by telling Deianira that the blood spilling from his wound could be used as a love potion, if need be. Deianira picked up some of the centaur's blood and saved it. Later, she put it onto a cloak she'd woven for Hercules, hoping it would renew his love for her.
The blood, of course, was not a love potion, but a deadly poison instead, and its touch burned Hercules' skin. His eventual death is described in the biography section (see ancient Argos).
The story of Deianira and Hercules became the subject of one of Sophocles' tragic plays, Trachiniae (The Women of Trachis). Like many Greek tragedies. this play explored the disruptive and horrible consequences when gods and mortals interacted.
This text is cited July 2004 from Perseus Project URL bellow, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Deianeira. The daughter of king Oeneus of Calydon and Althaea, but sometimes
it was whispered that Dionysus was her real father. Deianeira had many sisters
and brothers: Toxeus, Agelaus, Thyreus, Clymenus (or Periphas), Meleager, Gorge,
Eurymede and Melanippe.
Althaea died of grief when Meleager died, still a young boy, and his
sisters turned into guinea hens out of sorrow. Dionysus then intervened and spared
Deianeira and Gorge.
Deianeira was very beautiful, and both Heracles and the river god
Achelous wanted to marry her. A fight broke out between the two, and Achelous
transformed himself into a snake and then a bull. Heracles managed to break off
one of the bull's horn, and so won the battle.
The couple lived in Calydon for a few years, but when Heracles killed
a local boy by mistake, they were forced to leave. When they reached the Euenus
river they met the Centaur Nessus. When he saw the beautiful Deianeiera he tried
to rape her after he had carried her across the river, but Heracles killed him
with an arrow, its tip had been dipped in the blood of the Hydra. The dying Centaur
gave Deianeira a piece of cloth soaked with his blood, and told her to keep it.
With it, he said, she would have Heracles' love if she ever came near to losing
it.
Heracles and Deianeira settled in Trachis
where they had several children: Hyllus, Ctesippus, Glenus, Hodites and Macaria.
Heracles often went away on various adventures, but he always came back.
After many years, Deianeira was horrified to hear that her husband
had taken a young wife, and that he was coming back with her. The young bride,
Iole, was also rumoured to be very beautiful, and Deianeira was at her wits end.
When she had made sure her husband was really coming with Iole through a servant,
she put the Centaur's cloth in a barrel of water, and then put a shirt in it that
she sent to Heracles.
When Heracles put the shirt on it stuck on his skin and caused him
great pain. When he tried to take it off, pieces of his own flesh came with it.
He made it to Trachis, only
to find that Deianeira had hung herself when she had realised what she had done.
Heracles made a funeral pyre for himself by Mt.
Oeta, and then ascended it.
This text is cited Sept 2003 from the In2Greece URL below.
Ο Κόρεσος ήταν ένας ιερέας του Διονύσου ο οποίος ερωτεύτηκε μια κοπέλα, την Καλλιρόη. Επειδή όμως δε μπορούσε να την κάνει να τον αγαπήσει προσευχήθηκε στο Διόνυσο και εκείνος έστειλε θανατηφόρο επιδημία στους Καλυδώνιους. Το μαντείο της Δωδώνης, το οποίο συμβουλεύτηκαν, έδωσε χρησμό ότι για να σωθούν έπρεπε να θυσιάσουν στο Διόνυσο είτε την ίδια την Καλλιρόη είτε κάποιον άλλο που θα είχε το θάρρος να πεθάνει. Κανείς δε δεχόταν να πάρει τη θέση της Καλλιρόης κι έτσι οδηγήθηκε εκείνη στο μέρος όπου περίμενε ο Κόρεσος για τη θυσία. Την τελευταία όμως στιγμή αντί να σκοτώσει την κοπέλα σκοτώθηκε ο ίδιος. Οταν η Καλλιρόη τον είδε νεκρό κατάλαβε πόσο την αγαπούσε και από λύπη και ντροπή αυτοκτόνησε στην πηγή της Καλυδώνας , η οποία πήρε το όνομά της (Παυσ. 7,21,1-5).
Callirrhoe, a maiden of Calydon, who, when she was loved by Coresus, a priest of Dionysus, rejected all the offers he made to her. At length, he implored his god to punish the cruel maid. Dionysus now visited the people of Calydon with a general madness, which raged there like a plague. The Dodonaean oracle, which was consulted about the mode of averting the calamity, answered, that Dionysus must be propitiated, and that Callirrhoe must be sacrificed to him, or some one else in her stead. The maiden endeavoured in vain to escape her fate; but when she was led to the altar, Coresus, instead of performing the sacrifice, felt his love for her revive so strongly, that he sacrificed himself in her stead. But she also now put an end to her life near a well which derived its name from her (Paus. vii. 21.1). There are two more mythical personages of this name. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Alabanda; Plut. Parallel. Gr. et Rom. 23)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Nov 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
ΠΛΕΥΡΩΝ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΑΙΤΩΛΟΑΚΑΡΝΑΝΙΑ
Γιος του Αρη ή του Αγήνορος, πατέρας της Λήδας, του Ιφίκλου και του Ευρύπυλου.
(Thestios). The son of Ares and Demonice or Androdice, or, according to others, a son of Agenor and grandson of Pleuron, the king of Aetolia. He was the father of Iphiclus, Euippus, Plexippus, Eurypylus, Leda, Althaea, and Hypermnestra. The patronymic Thestiades is given to his grandson Meleager, as well as to his sons; and the female patronymic Thestias to his daughter Althaea, the mother of Meleager.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Agenor: Son of Pleuron and father of Thestius, husband of Epicaste.
Epicaste: Daughter of Calydon, wife of Agenor.
Agenor, a son of Pleuron and Xanthippe, and grandson of Aetolus. Epicaste, the daughter of Calydon, became by him the mother of Porthaon and Demonice (Apollod. i. 7.7). According to Pausanias (iii. 13.5), Thestius, the father of Leda, is likewise a son of this Agenor.
ΚΑΛΥΔΩΝ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΙΕΡΑ ΠΟΛΙΣ ΜΕΣΟΛΟΓΓΙΟΥ
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome 1.8.2 & P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses 8.260
Γιος του Αιτωλού και της Προνόης.
ΠΛΕΥΡΩΝ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΑΙΤΩΛΟΑΚΑΡΝΑΝΙΑ
Γιος του Αιτωλού και της Προνόης (Απολλόδ. 1,7,6).
ΚΑΛΥΔΩΝ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΙΕΡΑ ΠΟΛΙΣ ΜΕΣΟΛΟΓΓΙΟΥ
Architeles, father of the boy Eunomus, whom Heracles killed by accident on his visit to Architeles. The father forgave Heracles, but Heracles nevertheless went into voluntary exile. (Apollod. ii. 7. 6; Diod. iv. 36, who calls the boy Eurynomus; Athen. ix.)
Eunomus (Eunomos), a son of Architeles, was killed by Heracles (Apollod. ii. 7.6). Eustathius (ad Hom.) calls him Archias or Chaerias.
Γιος του Πορθάονα
Son of Melas, killed by Tydeus.
..that Ulysses went to Aetolia, to Thoas, son of Andraemon, married the daughter of Thoas, and leaving a son Leontophonus, whom he had by her, died in old age.
There were ties of kindred between the Heracleidae and the kings of Aetolia; in particular the mothers of Thoas, the son of Andraemon, and of Hyllus, the son of Heracles, were sisters. It fell to the lot of Oxylus to be an outlaw from Aetolia. The story goes that as he was throwing the quoit he missed the mark and committed unintentional homicide. The man killed by the quoit, according to one account, was Thermius, the brother of Oxylus; according to another it was Alcidocus, the son of Scopius.
(Perseus Project - Pausanias, Description of Greece 5.3.7)
Ηταν γιος του Σκοπίου. Σύμφωνα με κάποια παράδοση τον σκότωσε κατά λάθος ο Οξυλος ρίχνοντας δίσκο και γι' αυτό εξορίστηκε από την Αιτωλία (Παυσ. 5,3,7).
Andraemon. A son of the Oxylus mentioned above, and husband of Dryope, who was mother of Amphissus by Apollo. (Ov. Met. ix. 363; Anton. Lib. 32.) There are two other mythical personages of this name, the one a son of Codrus (Paus. vii. 3.2), and the other a Pylian, and founder of Colophon. (Strab, xiv.)
ΠΛΕΥΡΩΝ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΑΙΤΩΛΟΑΚΑΡΝΑΝΙΑ
Γιος του Θέστιου.
Γιος του Οιβάλου, πατέρας της Πηνελόπης, συζύγου του Οδυσσέα.
Son of Thestius, hunts the Calydonian boar, in the Argo.
Evippus, (Euippos). A son of Thestius and Eurythemis, who, together with his brothers, was killed by Meleager. (Apollod. i. 7.10, 8.3)
ΚΑΛΥΔΩΝ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΙΕΡΑ ΠΟΛΙΣ ΜΕΣΟΛΟΓΓΙΟΥ
ΠΛΕΥΡΩΝ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΑΙΤΩΛΟΑΚΑΡΝΑΝΙΑ
Demonice, (Demonike), a daughter of Agenor and Epicaste, who became by Ares the mother of Euenus, Molus, Pylus, and Thestius. (Apollod. i. 7.7.) Hesiod (ap. Schol. ad Hm. II. xiv. 200) calls her Demodoce.
ΑΡΑΚΥΝΘΟΣ (Βουνό) ΑΙΤΩΛΟΑΚΑΡΝΑΝΙΑ
Arakunthias, a surname of Aphrodite, derived from mount Aracynthus, the position of which is a matter of uncertainty, and on which she had a temple. (Rhianus, ap. Steph. Byz. s. v. Arakunthos)
ΚΑΛΥΔΩΝ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΙΕΡΑ ΠΟΛΙΣ ΜΕΣΟΛΟΓΓΙΟΥ
Caledonius Kaludonios), a surname of Dionysus, whose image was carried from Calydon to Patrae (Paus. vii. 21.1), and of Meleager, the hero in the Calydonian hunt. (Ov. Met. viii. 231.)
Laphraeus (Laphraios), a surname of Apollo at Calydon. (Strab. x., where, however, some read Lathrios.)
Laphria (Laphraia), a surname of Artemis among the Calydonians, from whom the worship of the goddess was introduced at Naupactus and Patrae, in Achaia. At the latter place it was not established till the time of Augustus, but it became the occasion of a great annual festival. (Paus. iv. 31. 6, vii. 18. 6. &c.; Schol. ad Eurip. Orest. 1087). The name Laphria was traced back to a hero, Laphrius, son of Castalius, who was said to have instituted her worship at Calydon. Laphria was also a surname of Athena. (Lycoph. 356.)
ΠΛΕΥΡΩΝ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΑΙΤΩΛΟΑΚΑΡΝΑΝΙΑ
Cycnus (Kuknos). A son of Apollo by Thyria or Hyria, the daughter of Amphinomus. He was
a handsome hunter, living in the district between Pleuron and Calydon, and although
beloved by many, repulsed all his lovers, and only one, Cycnus, persevered in
his love. Cycnus at last imposed upon him three labours, viz. to kill a lion without
weapons, to catch alive some monstrous vultures which devoured men, and with his
own hand to lead a bull to the altar of Zeus. Phyllius accomplished these tasks,
but as, in accordance with a request of Heracles, he refused giving to Phyllius
a bull which he had received as a prize, Cycnus was exasperated at the refusal,
and leaped into lake Canope, which was henceforth called after him the Cycnean
lake. His mother Thyria followed him, and both were metamorphosed by Apollo into
swans (Antonin. Lib. 12). Ovid (Met. vii. 371, &c.), who relates the same story,
makes the Cycnean lake arise from Hyria melting away in tears at the death of
her son.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Nov 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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