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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 been used as a synonym of – or as a field in – Nephelokokkygia (cloud cuckoo land).
Phlegra is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).
Spiders of this genus are found in Eurasia and Africa, with one species (P. hentzi) occurring only in North America.
Phlegra typically refers to:
- Phlegra (mythology), a location in both Greek and Roman mythology
- Phlegra (spider), a large genus of jumping spiders
It may also refer to:
- Phlegra, a 1975 composition by Iannis Xenakis