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
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
Deianira
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Deianira, Deïanira, or Deianeira, also known as Dejanira, is a Calydonian princess in Greek mythology whose name translates as "man-destroyer" or "destroyer of her husband". She was the wife of Heracl
Meleager
…Argonauts. Meleager was a Calydonian prince as the son of Althaea and the vintner King Oeneus or according to some, of the god Ares. He was the brother of Deianeira, Toxeus, Clymenus, Periphas, Agelaus (or Ageleus), Thyreus (or Phereus or Pheres), Gorge, Eurymede and Melanippe. Meleager was the father of Parthenopeus…
Heracles and Deianira antique fresco in Pompeii
Heracles, Deianira and Nessus, black-figure hydria, 575-550 BCE, Louvre (E 803)
Nessus and Deianira, Enrique Simonet, 1888.