(Καύκωνες; Kaúkōnes).
[1] Tribe on the Peloponnese
Hom. Od. 3,366 prompted logographers and exegetes of Homer to place the settlement area of this tribe on the Peloponnese. The results of these investigations are recorded by Strabo (7,7,1f.; 8,3,11; 8,3,16f.). Accordingly, the C. settled chiefly in Triphylia (grave of Caucon in Lepreum), but also penetrated into Arcadia and Messenia. Antimachus even referred to the western Achaean Dyme [1] as Cauconian (schol. Lycoph. 571), probably a…