InGreek mythology,Calydon (/ˈkælɪdɒn/;Ancient Greek:Καλυδών,romanized: Kaludṓn) is a minor figure from the homonymous region ofCalydon, the son ofAres andAstynome. Calydon angered the goddessArtemis when he saw her naked, and was then turned into rock as punishment.^[1]

Calydon was born toAres, the god of war, and a mortal woman namedAstynome. Like his name indicates, he was fromCalydon, an ancient city inAetolia, in westernGreece.^[2]

One day, Calydon accidentally came upon the virgin goddessArtemis who was bathing naked. As punishment she turned him into rock, and thus the mountain Gyrus that lay by theAchelous river took his name and was thus called Calydon thereafter.^[3][4]

Calydon seeing the goddess naked constitutes an intrusion which is sexual in nature, putting him in the same class as other rapists; blinding is a common punishment for sexual crimes in Greek mythology.^[5]

Calydon's story is only preserved inPseudo-Plutarch'sTreatise on Rivers and Mountains (orDe fluviis), a work by an author now known not to have been the actualPlutarch.^[6] This second-century work is today classified asparadoxography or a parody of paradoxography, and might have been written with a humorous, non-serious tone.^[7]

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• Grimal, Pierre (1987).The Dictionary of Classical Mythology. Wiley-Blackwell.ISBN 0-631-13209-0.
• Forbes Irving, Paul M. C. (1990).Metamorphosis in Greek Myths. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford, New York, Toronto:Oxford University Press,Clarendon Press.ISBN 0-19-814730-9.
• Pseudo-Plutarch (1878). Brady Kiesling (ed.).Names of Rivers and Mountains, in Plutarch, The Moralia. Translated by William Watson Goodwin.
• Roscher, Wilhelm Heinrich (1894).Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie [Detailed dictionary of Greek and Roman mythology] (in German). Vol. II: IACHE-KYZIKOS. Leipzig: Teubner-Verlag.

• Metamorphoses into terrain in Greek mythology
• Deeds of Artemis
• Children of Ares
• Mythological Aetolians

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