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    • In Greek mythology, Meleager was a hero venerated in his temenos at Calydon in Aetolia. He was already famed as the host of the Calydonian boar hunt in the epic tradition that was reworked by Homer. Meleager is also mentioned as one of the Argonauts.

    Biography

    Meleager was a Calydonian prince as the son of Althaea and the vintner King Oeneus or according to some, of the … See more

    Mythology

    When Meleager was born, the Moirai (the Fates) predicted he would only live until a piece of wood, then burning in the family hearth, was consumed by fire. Overhearing them, Althaea immediately doused and hid it. … See more

    Influences

    Among the Romans, the heroes assembled by Meleager for the Calydonian hunt provided a theme of multiple nudes in striking action, to be portrayed frieze-like on sarcophagi.
    Meleager's … See more

    Sources

    Bacchylides Fr 5.93
    Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica I, 190–201.
    Apollodorus, I, viii, 1–3.
    Ovid, Metamorphoses VIII, 269–525.… See more

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