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Phlegra ()〔 is both a real and a mythical location in both Greek and Roman mythology. In Greek mythology, it is the site of Zeus's overthrowing of the Giants (Gigantes) at the end of the Gigantomachy. Plegra is a peninsula of Macedonia (more specifically in Chalkidike) in modern Greece; it is an ancient name for Pallene in historical Thrace, the latter as per the toponymy of the ancients; Pallene – and Phlegra – is most commonly called nowadays ''Kassandra'', or ''Peninsula of Kassandra''.〔 Strabo wrote that Phlegrae was also called the Phlegraean Plain (, ', or , ')〔.〕 in Campania near Cumae. He writes that the Giants who survived, were driven out by Heracles, finding refuge with their mother in Leuca, a town now in Italy's 'heel'. A fountain there had smelly water the locals claimed to be from the ichor of the giants.〔 Strabo also writes: ''Phlegras pedion'' has also used as an synonym of – or as an field in – Nephelokokkygia (cloud cuckoo land). ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Phlegra (mythology)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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