Macalla or Makalla ( grc, Μάκαλλα) was an ancient city of
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The author of the
Aristotelian Corpus writes that
Philoctetes lived there after he returned from
Troy
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, and adds that the hero had deposited there in the temple of
Apollo Halius the bow and arrows of
Hercules
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The Romans adapted the ...
, which had, however, been removed by the
Crotoniats to the temple of Apollo in their own city. We learn from this author that Macalla was in the territory of
Crotone, about 120 ''stadia'' from that city; but its position cannot be determined. The author also add that the Philoctetes is honoured among the
Sybarites.
According to
Lycophron, at Macalla was the sepulchre of Philoctetes, to whom the inhabitants paid divine honours.
It was doubtless an
Oenotrian town: at a later period all trace of it disappears.
[ Steph. B. Μάκαλλα.]
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