Meleager

[ mel-ee-ey-jer ]

noun

1. flourished 1st century b.c., Greek epigrammatist.
2. Classical Mythology. the heroic son of Althaea, an Argonaut, and the slayer of the Calydonian boar. Compare Calydonian hunt.

Meleager

/ ˌmɛlɪˈeɪɡə /

noun

1. Greek myth one of the Argonauts, slayer of the Calydonian boar

Example Sentences

To-day, Jose Bonifacio gave me a translation from Meleager, which seems to me very beautiful.

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The other, who was beloved by Meleager, and hunted the Calydonian boar, is the one mentioned in the Kn.

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Parthonopee, Parthenopus, son of Meleager and Atalanta; another of the seven chiefs.

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There is considerable affinity, in this phase of the superstition, to the classic solar myth which records the doom of Meleager.

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In later years, Meleager slew a brother of Althæa, which so exasperated the mother that she laid her curse upon her son.

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