Meleager

Meleager in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Meleager (Ancient Greek: Μελέαγρος Meléagros) 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.[2] Meleager was the son of Althaea and the vintner Oeneus and, according to some accounts father of Parthenop...

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Meleager in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Mele/agros), a son of Oeneus (whence he is called Οἰνεΐδης), and Althaea, the daughter of Thestius, and was married to Cleopatra, by whom he became the father of Polydora. (Apollod. 1.8.2; Paus. 4.2 in fin.; Orph. Argon. 157.) Other accounts call Meleager a son of Ares, by Althaea (Plut. Parall. Min. 26; Ov. Met. 8.437; Hyg. Fab. 171); and ...

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