Calydonian boar hunt
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The Calydonian boar hunt is one of the great heroic adventures in Greek legend. It occurred in the generation prior to that of the Trojan War, and stands alongside the other great heroic adventure of
Fresco depicting Atalanta and Meleager resting after successfully hunting the Calydonian boar
The Calydonian boar hunt shown on a Roman frieze (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
Tondo of a Laconian black-figure cup by the Naucratis Painter, c. 555 BCE (Louvre)
The Calydonian boar, metope fragment from the Sicyonian Treasury, Delphi Archaeological Museum, Delphi, Greece
Meleager
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Meleager was a hero in Greek mythology, venerated in his temenos at Calydon in Aetolia. He was famed as the host of the Calydonian boar hunt in the epic tradition that was reworked by Homer, and was a
Calydonian boar hunt
…to ravage the region of Calydon in Aetolia, because its king Oeneus had failed to honour her in his rites to the gods. The hunters, led by the hero Meleager, included many of the foremost heroes of Greece. In most accounts it is also concluded that a great heroine, Atalanta, won its hide by first wounding…
Bust of Meleager, Roman copy after a Greek original of c. 340-330 BC
Meleager (sitting on a rock, with 2 spears) and Atalanta (standing) reposing after the Calydonian boar-hunt. Antique fresco from Pompeii.
Meleager et Atalanta, after Giulio Romano
Statue of Meleager modeled after Skopas