'beautiful justice') is a queen of Thesprotia in Epirus, an ancient region in northwestern Greece.
In the Telegony, the lost sequel to the Odyssey, she marries the wandering hero Odysseus when he visits her land after the end of his marine adventures and helps her rule the kingdom and defeat her enemies.
They have a son together, but after Callidice's death Odysseus returns again back to his homeland Ithaca.
In the Telegony, after Odysseus managed to get back home to Ithaca, he sailed away once more along the northern shore until he reached Thesprotia and the kingdom of Callidice.
[6] They were supported by Odysseus' patron goddess Athena, while the Bryges had the help of the war-god Ares, until Apollo intervened to separate the two gods.