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Meleager
Sign in to savethumb|Bust of Meleager, Roman copy after a Greek original of ca. 340-330 BC
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- Gender
- male
- Spouse
- Cleopatra
- Child
- Parthenopeus
- Father
- Ares
- Mother
- Althaea
- Hair colour
- blond hair
- Image
- Meleager Pio-Clementino Inv490.jpg
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- unmarried partner
- Atalanta
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- Argonautica
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- Meleager
- name in native language
- Μελέαγρος
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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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