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MACALLA (Ancient city) CALABRIA
Macalla(Makalla), an ancient city of Bruttium, where, according to
Lycophron, was the sepulchre of Philoctetes, to whom the inhabitants paid divine
honours. (Lycophr. Alex. 927.) The author of the treatise De Mirabilibus, ascribed
to Aristotle, mentions the same tradition, and adds that the hero had deposited
there in the temple of Apollo Halius the bow and arrows of Hercules, which had,
however, been removed by the Crotoniats to the temple of Apollo in their own city.
We learn from this author that Macalla was in the territory of Crotona, about
120 stadia from that city; but its position cannot be determined. It was doubtless
an Oenotrian town: at a later period all trace of it disappears. (Pseud.-Arist.
de Mirab. 107; Steph. B. s. v.; Schol. ad Lycophr. l. c.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
A town on the eastern coast of Bruttium. Here Philoctetes was said to have been buried.
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