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MELEAGER (Gk. MX aypos) , in Greek legend, the son of Oeneus, king of Calydon, and Althaea. His father having neglected to sacrifice to Artemis, she sent a wild boar to ravage the land, which was eventually slain by Meleager
Meleager
Homer
2 The god 'EXtoOv was also Phoenician; see Driver, Genesis
3 On the torch as representing the light of life, see E. Kuhnert in Rheinisches Museum, x1ix., 1894, and J. Grimm, Teutonic Mythology (Eng. trans. by J. Stallybrass, ,88o), ii. 853. changed by Artemis out of compassion into guinea
island
hair , holding a javelin or a boar's head, and accompanied by a dog,See R. Kekule , De fabula meleagrea dissertatio (1861); Surber, Die Meleagersage (Zurich, 188o) ; articles on Meleager " andMeleagrides " in Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie; L. Preller
Homer
frieze
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