Corydon

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Corydon can be:

In literature

  • Corydon (character), stock-name for a shepherd in pastorals, especially a shepherd whose love for a boy named Alexis is described in Theocritus' Idylls and Virgil's Eclogues
  • Corydon (book), by André Gide about homosexuality and pederasty : named after the above classical characters.

People

  • Corydon Beckwith (1823-1890), an American jurist and lawyer
  • Corydon Bell (1894–1980), American children's illustrator and writer
  • Corydon Partlow Brown, a Canadian politician and member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
  • Corydon M. Wassell, an American serviceman, winner of the Navy Cross, and the subject of a biographical film starring Gary Cooper

Places

In the United States of America:

In Canada:

Other

  • Corydon (genus), a genus of broadbill containing a single species, the dusky broadbill

See also

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