Calydon
38.3725°N 21.5333°E · Q750313
2 English words in this atlas trace back to Calydon. It sits in Greece.
The whole disaster started with a farmer forgetting one goddess at harvest time.
Oeneus, king of Calydon in Aetolia, sacrificed to the other gods and omitted Artemis, who sent the boar to destroy his fields. Meleager killed it and gave the hide to Atalanta, the only woman in the hunting party, which started the quarrel that killed him. Calydon was a real city; its site near modern Evinochori has been excavated since the 1920s.
It was the standard roll call of Greek heroes long before anyone wrote the myth down in full.
Homer already refers to the hunt in book nine of the Iliad, and Ovid gives the fullest surviving account in the Metamorphoses. The list of hunters worked as a catalog of heroes that artists could paint, and it appears on the Francois Vase of about 570 BC. Calydon itself sat in Aetolia on the north shore of the Gulf of Patras, near the mouth of the Evenus.