Calydon seeing the goddess naked constitutes an intrusion which is sexual in nature, putting him in the same class as other rapists; blinding is a common punishment for sexual crimes in Greek mythology. Calydon's story is only preserved in
Pseudo-Plutarch's
Treatise on Rivers and Mountains (or
De fluviis), a work by an author now known not to have been the actual
Plutarch. This second-century work is today classified as
paradoxography or a parody of paradoxography, and might have been written with a humorous, non-serious tone. == See also ==