Crommyon or Krommyon (), or Cromyon

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'' 7.435. or Kromyon (Κρομυών), or Cremmyon or Kremmyon (Κρεμμυών), was a small town of ancient Corinthia on the

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, but originally the last town of

Megaris :''This is also the ancient Greek name of Megaris (Naples), a small island off Naples, site of the Castel dell'Ovo.'' Megaris () was a small but populous Sovereign state, state of ancient Greece, west of Attica and north of Corinthia, whose inhabi ...

. It was the chief place between the isthmus, properly so called, and

Megara Megara (; , ) is a historic town and a municipality in West Attica, Greece. It lies in the northern section of the Isthmus of Corinth opposite the island of Salamis Island, Salamis, which belonged to Megara in archaic times, before being taken ...

; whence the whole of this coast was called the Crommyonia (ἡ Κρομμυωνία). Crommyon was distant 120 stadia from

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, and therefore occupied the site of the ruins near the chapel of Ag. Theodori (St. Theodorus). Crommyon is said by Pausanias to have derived its name from Crommus, the son of

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. It is celebrated in mythology as the haunt of the

Crommyonian Sow The Crommyonian Sow ( ''Hus Krommúōn'') is a pig in Greek mythology. It was owned by a woman named Phaea ( ''Phaiā́'', "grey") and was sometimes called by that name itself. Mythology The Crommyonian Sow was a wild pig that ravaged the re ...

destroyed by

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''Thes.'' 9. It was taken by the

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in the

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, but was recovered by

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