Corydon

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:

• Corydon, Indiana
  • The Battle of Corydon in the American Civil War
  • Corydon Historic District
• Corydon, Iowa
• Corydon, Kentucky
• Corydon Township, McKean County, Pennsylvania
• Corydon Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania

In Canada:

• Corydon Avenue, a major street in Winnipeg, Manitoba

Other

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

See also

• Croydon