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This page is part of the "tools" section of a site, Plato and his dialogues, dedicated to developing a new interpretation of Plato's dialogues. The "tools" section provides historical and geographical context (chronology, maps, entries on characters and locations) for Socrates, Plato and their time. By clicking on the minimap at the beginning of the entry, you can go to a full size map in which the city or location appears. For more information on the structure of entries and links available from them, read the notice at the beginning of the index of persons and locations.
Region of central western Greece (area 2) north
of the entrance of the gulf of Calydon along the shores
of the Ionian Sea.
Acarnania owed its name to Acarnan, a son of Alcmæon (the leader of the
expedition of the Epigones against Thebes) and grandson
of Amphiaraus (a king of Argos and a member of the expedition
of the seven against Thebes), who was said to have
first settled the region (see the entry on Argos for
more on this story).
