Aetolians

Aetolia or Aitolia (Greek: Αἰτωλία, romanized: Aitōlía) was the homeland of the ancient Greek tribe of Aetolians. It was a mountainous region in western central Greece, and it formed the original core of the Aetolian League, which became a prominent power during the Hellenistic period. The Achelous River separates Aetolia from Acarnania to the west. On the northwest, northeast and east it had boundaries with Epirus, Thessaly and Ozolian Locris respectively. Aetolia together with Achaea in Peloponnese on the opposite side, form the entrance to the Corinthian Gulf. MythologyThe mountains of Aetolia contained many wild beasts, and acquired fame in Greek mythology as the scene of the hunt for the Calydonian Boar, also called the Aetolian Boar. Tribes known as Curetes – named after the nearby mountain Kourion, or just to stand out from the Acarnanians, who were called so because they were unshorn – and Leleges originally inhabited the country, but at an early period Greeks from Elis, led by the mythical eponymAetolus, set up colonies. Dionysius of Halicarnassus mentions that Curetes was the old name of the Aetolians and Leleges the old name of the Locrians. The Aetolians t