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Meleager
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thumb|Bust of Meleager, Roman copy after a Greek original of ca. 340-330 BC
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 also mentioned as one of the Argonauts.
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