Calliarus
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Calliarus or Kalliaros () was a town in Eastern Locris mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships of the Iliad. It was uninhabited in Strabo's time, but its name was still attached to a tract of ground on account of the fertility of the latter. According to Greek mythology, the town's eponymous founder was Kalliaros, a son of Laonome and Hodoedocus.
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- Greece
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- time period
- Ancient Greece
- culture
- Ancient Greece
- native label
- Καλλίαρος
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
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Calliarus or Kalliaros () was a town in Eastern Locris mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships of the Iliad. It was uninhabited in Strabo's time, but its name was still attached to a tract of ground on account of the fertility of the latter. According to Greek mythology, the town's eponymous founder was Kalliaros, a son of Laonome and Hodoedocus.
Its site is tentative located near Skala Atalantis.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Calliarus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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