Tags: Mythological Figure.
Phlegra (Greek: Φλέγρα) refers to 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[citation needed] that Phlegrae was also called the Phlegraean Plain[citation needed] (Φλέγρας πεδίον Phlegras pedion or Φλεγραία πλάξ Phlegraia plax) in Campania near Cumae.