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CALES (Ancient city) CAMPANIA
(Kalais) and Zetes (Zetes). The Boreadae, or sons of Boreas
and Orithyia. They were both winged heroes, and took part in the Argonautic expedition.
Coming in the course of the enterprise to Salmydessus, they set free Phineus,
the husband of their sister Cleopatra, from the Harpies, chasing them through
the air on their wings. According to one story, they perished on this occasion;
according to another, they were slain afterwards by Heracles on the island of
Tenos, on their return from the funeral games of Pelias. This was in retribution
for the counsel which they had given to the Argonauts on the coast of Mysia, to
leave Heracles be hind. Their graves and monuments were shown in Tenos. One of
the pillars was said to move when the north wind blew.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Calais : Perseus Encyclopedia
CHONES (Ancient tribe) ITALY
Apollodorus, in his work On Ships, in mentioning Philoctetes, says that, according to some, when Philoctetes arrived at the territory of Croton, he colonized the promontory Crimissa, and, in the interior above it, the city Chone, from which the Chonians of that district took their name, and that some of his companions whom he had sent forth with Aegestes the Trojan to the region of Eryx in Sicily fortified Aegesta.
NEAPOLIS (Ancient city) CAMPANIA
AUSONIA (Ancient country) CAMPANIA
Auson, a son of Odysseus either by Calypso or Circe (Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 44, 696; Schol. ad Apollon. iv. 553; Serv. ad Aen. iii. 171; Suidas, s. v. Ausonion). The country of the Auruncans was believed to have derived from him the name of Ausonia. Dionysius (i. 72), in enumerating the sons of Odysseus by Circe, does not mention Auson. Liparus, from whom the name of the island of Lipara was derived, is called a son of Auson. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Lipara.)
NEAPOLIS (Ancient city) CAMPANIA
She had been washed ashore on the site after failing to capture Odysseus
SANTA MARIA CAPUA VETERE (Town) CAMPANIA
Capys, one of the companions of Aeneas, from whom the town of Capua was said to have derived its name (Virg. Aen. x. 145). This Capys was a Trojan, and is mentioned by Virgil among those who were of opinion that the wooden horse should be thrown into the water (Aen. ii. 35). Livy (iv. 37) states, that according to some traditions the town of Capua, which was previously called Vulturnum, derived its name from a Samnite chief of the name of Capys.
Baeus (Baios), the helmsman of Odysseus, who is said to have died during the stay
of the latter in Sicily. Mount Baea in the island of Cephallenia, and several
islands and towns, but especially Baiae in Campania, in the bay of which he was
believed to have been buried, are supposed to have derived their names from him.
(Lycophr. 694, with Tzetz. note; Steph. Byz. s. v. Baia; Eustath. ad Hom.)
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