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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Fresco_of_Atalanta_and_Meleager_resting_after_the_successful_Calydonian_Boar_hunt.jpg/220px-Fresco_of_Atalanta_and_Meleager_resting_after_the_successful_Calydonian_Boar_hunt.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="298" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Fresco_of_Atalanta_and_Meleager_resting_after_the_successful_Calydonian_Boar_hunt.jpg/330px-Fresco_of_Atalanta_and_Meleager_resting_after_the_successful_Calydonian_Boar_hunt.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Fresco_of_Atalanta_and_Meleager_resting_after_the_successful_Calydonian_Boar_hunt.jpg/440px-Fresco_of_Atalanta_and_Meleager_resting_after_the_successful_Calydonian_Boar_hunt.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3009" data-file-height="4078" /></a><figcaption>Fresco depicting <a href="/wiki/Atalanta" title="Atalanta">Atalanta</a> and <a href="/wiki/Meleager" title="Meleager">Meleager</a> resting after successfully hunting the Calydonian boar</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Calydonian_hunt.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Calydonian_hunt.jpg/220px-Calydonian_hunt.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Calydonian_hunt.jpg/330px-Calydonian_hunt.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Calydonian_hunt.jpg/440px-Calydonian_hunt.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="387" /></a><figcaption>The Calydonian boar hunt shown on a Roman frieze (<a href="/wiki/Ashmolean_Museum" title="Ashmolean Museum">Ashmolean Museum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>Calydonian boar hunt</b> is one of the great heroic adventures in Greek legend.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It occurred in the generation prior to that of the <a href="/wiki/Trojan_War" title="Trojan War">Trojan War</a>, and stands alongside the other great heroic adventure of that generation, the voyage of the <a href="/wiki/Argonauts" title="Argonauts">Argonauts</a>, which preceded it.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The purpose of the hunt was to kill the <b>Calydonian boar</b> (also called the <b>Aetolian boar</b>),<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which had been sent by <a href="/wiki/Artemis" title="Artemis">Artemis</a> to ravage the region of <a href="/wiki/Calydon" title="Calydon">Calydon</a> in <a href="/wiki/Aetolia" title="Aetolia">Aetolia</a>, because its king <a href="/wiki/Oeneus" title="Oeneus">Oeneus</a> had failed to honour her in his rites to the gods. The hunters, led by the hero <a href="/wiki/Meleager" title="Meleager">Meleager</a>, included many of the foremost heroes of Greece. In most accounts it is also concluded that a great heroine, <a href="/wiki/Atalanta" title="Atalanta">Atalanta</a>, won its hide by first wounding it with an arrow. This outraged many of the men, leading to a tragic dispute. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Importance_in_Greek_mythology_and_art">Importance in Greek mythology and art</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Calydonian_boar_hunt&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Importance in Greek mythology and art"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Calydonian_hunt_Louvre_E670.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Calydonian_hunt_Louvre_E670.jpg/220px-Calydonian_hunt_Louvre_E670.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="196" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Calydonian_hunt_Louvre_E670.jpg/330px-Calydonian_hunt_Louvre_E670.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Calydonian_hunt_Louvre_E670.jpg/440px-Calydonian_hunt_Louvre_E670.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="1600" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Tondo_(art)" title="Tondo (art)">Tondo</a> of a <a href="/wiki/Laconia" title="Laconia">Laconian</a> <a href="/wiki/Black-figure_pottery" title="Black-figure pottery">black-figure cup</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Naucratis_Painter" title="Naucratis Painter">Naucratis Painter</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 555 BCE</span> (<a href="/wiki/Louvre" title="Louvre">Louvre</a>)</figcaption></figure> <p>Since the Calydonian boar hunt drew together numerous heroes<sup id="cite_ref-Apollodorus_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Apollodorus-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>—among whom were many who were venerated as progenitors of their local ruling houses among tribal groups of <a href="/wiki/Greeks" title="Greeks">Hellenes</a> into Classical times—it offered a natural subject in classical art, for it was redolent with the web of myth that gathered around its protagonists on other occasions, around their half-divine descent and their offspring.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Like the quest for the <a href="/wiki/Golden_Fleece" title="Golden Fleece">Golden Fleece</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Argonautica" title="Argonautica">Argonautica</a></i>) or the <a href="/wiki/Trojan_War" title="Trojan War">Trojan War</a> that took place the following generation, the Calydonian boar hunt is one of the nodes in which much Greek myth comes together.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Calydonian_boar_hunt&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Both <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hesiod" title="Hesiod">Hesiod</a> and their listeners were aware of the details of this myth, but no surviving complete account exists: some <a href="/wiki/Papyrus" title="Papyrus">papyrus</a> fragments found at <a href="/wiki/Oxyrhynchus" title="Oxyrhynchus">Oxyrhynchus</a> are all that survive of <a href="/wiki/Stesichorus" title="Stesichorus">Stesichorus</a>' telling;<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the myth repertory called <i><a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Bibliotheke</a></i> ("The Library") contains the gist of the tale, and before that was compiled the Roman poet <a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a> told the story in some colorful detail in his <i><a href="/wiki/Metamorphoses" title="Metamorphoses">Metamorphoses</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mythology">Mythology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Calydonian_boar_hunt&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Mythology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Boar">The Boar</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Calydonian_boar_hunt&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The Boar"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Scene_from_myth_of_Calydonian_Boar,_Delphi,_Greece_(9656884402).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Scene_from_myth_of_Calydonian_Boar%2C_Delphi%2C_Greece_%289656884402%29.jpg/220px-Scene_from_myth_of_Calydonian_Boar%2C_Delphi%2C_Greece_%289656884402%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Scene_from_myth_of_Calydonian_Boar%2C_Delphi%2C_Greece_%289656884402%29.jpg/330px-Scene_from_myth_of_Calydonian_Boar%2C_Delphi%2C_Greece_%289656884402%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Scene_from_myth_of_Calydonian_Boar%2C_Delphi%2C_Greece_%289656884402%29.jpg/440px-Scene_from_myth_of_Calydonian_Boar%2C_Delphi%2C_Greece_%289656884402%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2432" /></a><figcaption>The Calydonian boar, metope fragment from the <a href="/wiki/Sicyonian_Treasury" title="Sicyonian Treasury">Sicyonian Treasury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Delphi_Archaeological_Museum" title="Delphi Archaeological Museum">Delphi Archaeological Museum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Delphi" title="Delphi">Delphi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>The Calydonian boar is one of several monsters in Greek mythology named for a specific locale. Sent by Artemis to ravage the region of Calydon in <a href="/wiki/Aetolia" title="Aetolia">Aetolia</a>, it met its end in the Calydonian boar hunt, in which many of the great heroes of the age took part (an exception being <a href="/wiki/Heracles" title="Heracles">Heracles</a>, who vanquished his own Goddess-sent <a href="/wiki/Erymanthian_boar" title="Erymanthian boar">Erymanthian boar</a> separately). </p><p>King <a href="/wiki/Oeneus" title="Oeneus">Oeneus</a> ("wine man")<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of <a href="/wiki/Calydon" title="Calydon">Calydon</a>, an ancient city of west-central <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a> north of the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Patras" title="Gulf of Patras">Gulf of Patras</a>, held annual harvest sacrifices to the gods on the sacred hill. One year the king forgot to include Great "Artemis of the golden throne" in his offerings.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Insulted, Artemis, the "Lady of the Bow", loosed the biggest, most ferocious <a href="/wiki/Wild_boar" title="Wild boar">wild boar</a> imaginable on the countryside of Calydon. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Caledonian_Boar_(Archaeological_Museum_of_Piraeus,_2-12-2023).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/The_Caledonian_Boar_%28Archaeological_Museum_of_Piraeus%2C_2-12-2023%29.jpg/220px-The_Caledonian_Boar_%28Archaeological_Museum_of_Piraeus%2C_2-12-2023%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/The_Caledonian_Boar_%28Archaeological_Museum_of_Piraeus%2C_2-12-2023%29.jpg/330px-The_Caledonian_Boar_%28Archaeological_Museum_of_Piraeus%2C_2-12-2023%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/The_Caledonian_Boar_%28Archaeological_Museum_of_Piraeus%2C_2-12-2023%29.jpg/440px-The_Caledonian_Boar_%28Archaeological_Museum_of_Piraeus%2C_2-12-2023%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4400" data-file-height="2933" /></a><figcaption>The boar on a Roman sarcophagus, late 2nd cent., <a href="/wiki/Archaeological_Museum_of_Piraeus" title="Archaeological Museum of Piraeus">Archaeological Museum of Piraeus</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a> describes the boar as follows:<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dd>A dreadful boar.—His burning, bloodshot eyes</dd> <dd>seemed coals of living fire, and his rough neck</dd> <dd>was knotted with stiff muscles, and thick-set</dd> <dd>with bristles like sharp spikes. A seething froth</dd> <dd>dripped on his shoulders, and his tusks</dd> <dd>were like the spoils of Ind [India]. Discordant roars</dd> <dd>reverberated from his hideous jaws;</dd> <dd>and lightning—belched forth from his horrid throat—</dd> <dd>scorched the green fields. <dl><dd>— <a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Metamorphoses" title="Metamorphoses">Metamorphoses</a></i> 8.284–289 (Brookes More translation)</dd></dl></dd></dl> <p>Ovid goes on to say that the boar rampaged throughout the countryside, destroying vineyards and crops, forcing people to take refuge inside their city walls.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to <a href="/wiki/Strabo" title="Strabo">Strabo</a>, the boar was said to be the offspring of the <a href="/wiki/Crommyonian_Sow" title="Crommyonian Sow">Crommyonian Sow</a> vanquished by <a href="/wiki/Theseus" title="Theseus">Theseus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8.6.22_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8.6.22-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Hunt">The Hunt</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Calydonian_boar_hunt&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The Hunt"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Oeneus sent messengers out to look for the best hunters in Greece, offering them the boar's pelt and tusks as a prize.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Calydonian_hunt_Musei_Capitolini_MC917.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Calydonian_hunt_Musei_Capitolini_MC917.jpg/220px-Calydonian_hunt_Musei_Capitolini_MC917.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Calydonian_hunt_Musei_Capitolini_MC917.jpg/330px-Calydonian_hunt_Musei_Capitolini_MC917.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Calydonian_hunt_Musei_Capitolini_MC917.jpg/440px-Calydonian_hunt_Musei_Capitolini_MC917.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3650" data-file-height="1500" /></a><figcaption>Roman marble sarcophagus from <a href="/wiki/Vicovaro" title="Vicovaro">Vicovaro</a>, carved with the Calydonian Hunt (<a href="/wiki/Capitoline_Hill#Palazzo_dei_Conservatori" title="Capitoline Hill">Palazzo dei Conservatori</a>, Rome)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Giulio_Romano_-_Meleager_et_Atalanta.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Giulio_Romano_-_Meleager_et_Atalanta.jpg/220px-Giulio_Romano_-_Meleager_et_Atalanta.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Giulio_Romano_-_Meleager_et_Atalanta.jpg/330px-Giulio_Romano_-_Meleager_et_Atalanta.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Giulio_Romano_-_Meleager_et_Atalanta.jpg/440px-Giulio_Romano_-_Meleager_et_Atalanta.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2320" data-file-height="1352" /></a><figcaption><i>Meleager et Atalanta</i>, after <a href="/wiki/Giulio_Romano_(painter)" class="mw-redirect" title="Giulio Romano (painter)">Giulio Romano</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Among those who responded were some of the <a href="/wiki/Argonauts" title="Argonauts">Argonauts</a>, Oeneus' own son <a href="/wiki/Meleager" title="Meleager">Meleager</a>, and, remarkably for the hunt's eventual success, one woman—the huntress <a href="/wiki/Atalanta" title="Atalanta">Atalanta</a>, the "indomitable", who had been suckled by Artemis as a she-bear and raised as a huntress, a proxy for Artemis herself (Kerenyi; Ruck and Staples). Artemis appears to have been divided in her motives, for it was also said that she had sent the young huntress because she knew her presence would be a source of division, and so it was: many of the men, led by Kepheus and Ankaios, refused to hunt alongside a woman. It was the smitten Meleager who convinced them.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nonetheless it was Atalanta who first succeeded in wounding the boar with an arrow, although Meleager finished it off, and offered the prize to Atalanta, who had drawn first blood. But the sons of <a href="/wiki/Thestius" title="Thestius">Thestius</a>, who considered it disgraceful that a woman should get the trophy where men were involved, took the skin from her, saying that it was properly theirs by right of birth, if Meleager chose not to accept it. Outraged by this,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meleager slew the sons of Thestius and again gave the skin to Atalanta (<i>Bibliotheke</i>). Meleager's mother, sister of Meleager's slain uncles, took the fatal brand from the chest where she had kept it (see <a href="/wiki/Meleager" title="Meleager">Meleager</a>) and threw it once more on the fire; as it was consumed, Meleager died on the spot, as the Fates had foretold. Thus Artemis achieved her revenge against King Oeneus. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Regius_-_Calydonian_Boar.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Regius_-_Calydonian_Boar.jpg/190px-Regius_-_Calydonian_Boar.jpg" decoding="async" width="190" height="121" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Regius_-_Calydonian_Boar.jpg/285px-Regius_-_Calydonian_Boar.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Regius_-_Calydonian_Boar.jpg/380px-Regius_-_Calydonian_Boar.jpg 2x" data-file-width="734" data-file-height="466" /></a><figcaption>Woodcut for <a href="/wiki/Raphael_Regius" title="Raphael Regius">Raphael Regius</a>'s edition of <i><a href="/wiki/Metamorphoses" title="Metamorphoses">Metamorphoses</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Venice" title="Venice">Venice</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1518</span></figcaption></figure> <p>During the hunt, <a href="/wiki/Peleus" title="Peleus">Peleus</a> accidentally killed his host, Eurytion. In the course of the hunt and its aftermath, many of the hunters turned upon one another, contesting the spoils, and so the Goddess continued to be revenged.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Homer "the goddess brought to pass much clamour and shouting concerning his head and shaggy hide, between the Curetes and the great-souled Aetolians."<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BLW_Meleager.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/BLW_Meleager.jpg/220px-BLW_Meleager.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/BLW_Meleager.jpg/330px-BLW_Meleager.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/BLW_Meleager.jpg/440px-BLW_Meleager.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2448" data-file-height="3264" /></a><figcaption><i>Meleager</i>, one of the hunters. His javelin is broken and the boar is missing (<a href="/wiki/Victoria_and_Albert_Museum" title="Victoria and Albert Museum">Victoria and Albert Museum</a>)</figcaption></figure> <p>The boar's hide that was preserved in the Temple of <a href="/wiki/Athena" title="Athena">Athena Alea</a> at <a href="/wiki/Tegea" title="Tegea">Tegea</a> in <a href="/wiki/Laconia" title="Laconia">Laconia</a> was reputedly that of the Calydonian Boar, "rotted by age and by now altogether without bristles" by the time <a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a> saw it in the second century CE.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He noted that the tusks had been taken to Rome as booty from the defeated allies of <a href="/wiki/Mark_Antony" title="Mark Antony">Mark Anthony</a> by <a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "one of the tusks of the Calydonian boar has been broken", Pausanias reports, "the remaining one is kept in the gardens of the emperor, in a sanctuary of Dionysus, and is about half a fathom long",<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Calydonian boar hunt was the theme of the temple's main pediment. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Hunters">The Hunters</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Calydonian_boar_hunt&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: The Hunters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti 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data-file-width="3364" data-file-height="1075" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flex"><div class="thumbcaption">From the <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Vase" title="François Vase">François Vase</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 570 BCE</span></div></div></div></div> <p>According to the <i><a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a></i>, the heroes who participated in the hunt assembled from all over Greece.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Bacchylides" title="Bacchylides">Bacchylides</a> has Meleager describe himself and the rest of the hunters as "the best of the Hellenes".<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The table lists:<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Those seen by <a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Athena_Alea" title="Temple of Athena Alea">Temple of Athena Alea</a> at <a href="/wiki/Tegea" title="Tegea">Tegea</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as another hero, Ischepolis, mentioned by Pausanias.<sup id="cite_ref-1.42.6_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1.42.6-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Those listed by Latin mythographer <a href="/wiki/Hyginus" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyginus">Hyginus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Those noted in <a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>'s list from the 8th Book of his <i><a href="/wiki/Metamorphoses" title="Metamorphoses">Metamorphoses</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Those listed by the mythographer <a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Apollodorus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Apollodorus_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Apollodorus-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Hero </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Paus.</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Hyginus" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyginus">Hyg.</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Apd.</a> </th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Acastus" title="Acastus">Acastus</a></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td> </td> <td>Ovid: "swift of dart"<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Admetus" class="mw-redirect" title="Admetus">Admetus</a></td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓ </td> <td>Son of Pheres, from <a href="/wiki/Pherae" title="Pherae">Pherae</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Alcon_(mythology)" title="Alcon (mythology)">Alcon (son of Hippocoon)</a></td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td></td> <td> </td> <td>One of three sons of <a href="/wiki/Hippocoon_of_Sparta" class="mw-redirect" title="Hippocoon of Sparta">Hippocoon</a> from <a href="/wiki/Amyclae" title="Amyclae">Amyclae</a>, according to Hyginus. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Alcon_(mythology)" title="Alcon (mythology)">Alcon (son of Ares)</a></td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td></td> <td> </td> <td>Son of <a href="/wiki/Ares" title="Ares">Ares</a> from Thrace. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Amphiaraus" title="Amphiaraus">Amphiaraus</a></td> <td>✓</td> <td> </td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓ </td> <td>Son of <a href="/wiki/Oicles" title="Oicles">Oicles</a>, from <a href="/wiki/Argos,_Peloponnese" title="Argos, Peloponnese">Argos</a>; "As yet unruined by his wicked wife", i.e. <a href="/wiki/Eriphyle" title="Eriphyle">Eriphyle</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Ancaeus_(son_of_Lycurgus)" title="Ancaeus (son of Lycurgus)">Ancaeus</a></td> <td>✓ </td> <td>✓ </td> <td>✓ </td> <td>✓ </td> <td>Son of <a href="/wiki/Lycurgus_(Arcadia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lycurgus (Arcadia)">Lycurgus</a>, from <a href="/wiki/Arcadia_(ancient_region)" class="mw-redirect" title="Arcadia (ancient region)">Arcadia</a>, killed by the boar. In Ovid's account he wielded a two-headed axe (<i>bipennifer</i>) but he was undone by his boastfulness which gave the boar time enough to charge him: Ancaeus was speared on the boar's tusks at the upper part of the groin and guts burst forth from the gashes it had made.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Asclepius" title="Asclepius">Asclepius</a></td> <td></td> <td>✓ </td> <td></td> <td> </td> <td>Son of Apollo. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Atalanta" title="Atalanta">Atalanta</a></td> <td>✓ </td> <td>✓ </td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓ </td> <td>Daughter of <a href="/wiki/Schoeneus" title="Schoeneus">Schoeneus</a>, from <a href="/wiki/Arcadia_(ancient_region)" class="mw-redirect" title="Arcadia (ancient region)">Arcadia</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Caeneus" title="Caeneus">Caeneus</a></td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓</td> <td> </td> <td>Son of Elatus; Ovid notes that Caeneus was "first a woman then a man".<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Castor_and_Pollux" title="Castor and Pollux">Castor</a></td> <td>✓ </td> <td>✓ </td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓ </td> <td>Brother of Polydeuces; the Dioscuri, sons of <a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Leda_(mythology)" title="Leda (mythology)">Leda</a>, from <a href="/wiki/Lacedaemon" class="mw-redirect" title="Lacedaemon">Lacedaemon</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Cepheus_(king_of_Tegea)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cepheus (king of Tegea)">Cepheus</a></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td>✓ </td> <td>Son of <a href="/wiki/Lycurgus_(Arcadia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lycurgus (Arcadia)">Lycurgus</a>, brother of <a href="/wiki/Ancaeus_(son_of_Lycurgus)" title="Ancaeus (son of Lycurgus)">Ancaeus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Apollodorus_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Apollodorus-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Cometes" title="Cometes">Cometes</a> </td> <td>✓ </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td>Son of <a href="/wiki/Thestius" title="Thestius">Thestius</a>, Meleager's uncle. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Eurytus_and_Cteatus" title="Eurytus and Cteatus">Cteatus</a></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td> </td> <td>One of the two sons of <a href="/wiki/Actor_(mythology)" title="Actor (mythology)">Actor</a>, brother of <a href="/wiki/Eurytus_and_Cteatus" title="Eurytus and Cteatus">Eurytus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-sons_of_Actor_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sons_of_Actor-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Deucalion_(son_of_Minos)" title="Deucalion (son of Minos)">Deucalion</a></td> <td></td> <td>✓ </td> <td></td> <td> </td> <td>Son of Minos. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Dryas_(mythology)" title="Dryas (mythology)">Dryas</a> of Calydon</td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓ </td> <td>Son of <a href="/wiki/Ares" title="Ares">Ares</a> (Hyginus notes him as "son of Iapetus"). </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Echion" title="Echion">Echion</a></td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓</td> <td> </td> <td>One of the <a href="/wiki/Argonauts" title="Argonauts">Argonauts</a>, son of <a href="/wiki/Hermes" title="Hermes">Hermes</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Antianeira_(daughter_of_Menetes)" title="Antianeira (daughter of Menetes)">Antianeira</a>, brother of Erytusson; Ovid says "first to hurl his spear".<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Enaesimus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Enaesimus (page does not exist)">Enaesimus</a></td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td></td> <td> </td> <td>One of three sons of <a href="/wiki/Hippocoon_of_Sparta" class="mw-redirect" title="Hippocoon of Sparta">Hippocoon</a> from <a href="/wiki/Amyclae" title="Amyclae">Amyclae</a>, according to Hyginus. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Epochus" title="Epochus">Epochus</a></td> <td>✓ </td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Euphemus" title="Euphemus">Euphemus</a></td> <td></td> <td>✓ </td> <td></td> <td> </td> <td>Son of Poseidon. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Eurypylus#Other_characters" title="Eurypylus">Eurypylus</a></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td>✓ </td> <td>One of the sons of <a href="/wiki/Thestius" title="Thestius">Thestius</a>, according to Apollodorus.<sup id="cite_ref-sons_of_Thespius_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sons_of_Thespius-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Eurytion_(king_of_Phthia)" title="Eurytion (king of Phthia)">Eurytion</a></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓ </td> <td>King of Phtia, accidentally run through with a javelin by Peleus. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Eurytus" title="Eurytus">Eurytus</a> (son of <a href="/wiki/Hermes" title="Hermes">Hermes</a>)</td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td></td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Eurytus_and_Cteatus" title="Eurytus and Cteatus">Eurytus</a> (son of <a href="/wiki/Actor_(mythology)" title="Actor (mythology)">Actor</a>)</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td> </td> <td>One of the two sons of <a href="/wiki/Actor_(mythology)" title="Actor (mythology)">Actor</a>, brother of <a href="/wiki/Eurytus_and_Cteatus" title="Eurytus and Cteatus">Cteatus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-sons_of_Actor_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sons_of_Actor-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Evippus" title="Evippus">Evippus</a></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td>✓ </td> <td>One of the sons of <a href="/wiki/Thestius" title="Thestius">Thestius</a>, according to Apollodorus.<sup id="cite_ref-sons_of_Thespius_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sons_of_Thespius-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hippalmus" title="Hippalmus">Hippalmus</a></td> <td> </td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td> </td> <td>Along with <a href="/wiki/Pelagon" title="Pelagon">Pelagon</a>, attacked by the Boar, their bodies taken up by their comrades.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hippasus_(mythology)" title="Hippasus (mythology)">Hippasus</a></td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓</td> <td> </td> <td>Son of <a href="/wiki/Eurytus_of_Oechalia" title="Eurytus of Oechalia">Eurytus of Oechalia</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hippothous" title="Hippothous">Hippothous</a></td> <td>✓ </td> <td>✓ </td> <td>✓</td> <td> </td> <td>Son of <a href="/wiki/Cercyon" title="Cercyon">Kerkyon</a>, son of Agamedes, son of Stymphalos. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hyleus" title="Hyleus">Hyleus</a></td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓</td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Idas" class="mw-redirect" title="Idas">Idas</a></td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓ </td> <td>Son of <a href="/wiki/Aphareus_of_Messenia" class="mw-redirect" title="Aphareus of Messenia">Aphareus</a>, from <a href="/wiki/Messene" title="Messene">Messene</a>; brother of Lynceus. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Iolaus" title="Iolaus">Iolaus</a></td> <td>✓ </td> <td>✓ </td> <td>✓</td> <td> </td> <td>Son of <a href="/wiki/Iphicles" title="Iphicles">Iphicles</a>, nephew of Heracles. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Iphicles" title="Iphicles">Iphicles</a></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td>✓ </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Amphitryon" title="Amphitryon">Amphitryon</a>’s mortal son from <a href="/wiki/Thebes,_Greece" title="Thebes, Greece">Thebes</a>, the twin of <a href="/wiki/Heracles" title="Heracles">Heracles</a> (who took no part).<sup id="cite_ref-Apollodorus_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Apollodorus-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Iphiclus_(mythology)" title="Iphiclus (mythology)">Iphiclus</a></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td>✓ </td> <td>One of the sons of <a href="/wiki/Thestius" title="Thestius">Thestius</a>, according to Apollodorus.<sup id="cite_ref-sons_of_Thespius_35-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sons_of_Thespius-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ischepolis_(mythology)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ischepolis (mythology) (page does not exist)">Ischepolis</a></td> <td>✓</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td> <td>Son of Alcathous (not mentioned by Pausanias as having been seen on the <a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Athena_Alea" title="Temple of Athena Alea">Temple of Athena Alea</a> at <a href="/wiki/Tegea" title="Tegea">Tegea</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-1.42.6_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1.42.6-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Jason_(Greek_mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jason (Greek mythology)">Jason</a></td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓ </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Aeson" title="Aeson">Aeson</a>’s son, from Iolkos. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Laertes_(father_of_Odysseus)" title="Laertes (father of Odysseus)">Laertes</a></td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓</td> <td> </td> <td>Son of Arcesius, <a href="/wiki/Odysseus" title="Odysseus">Odysseus</a>' father. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Lelex_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lelex (mythology)">Lelex</a></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td> </td> <td>Of <a href="/wiki/Naryx" class="mw-redirect" title="Naryx">Naryx</a> in <a href="/wiki/Locris" title="Locris">Locria</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Leucippus_(mythology)" title="Leucippus (mythology)">Leucippus</a></td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓</td> <td> </td> <td>One of three sons of <a href="/wiki/Hippocoon_of_Sparta" class="mw-redirect" title="Hippocoon of Sparta">Hippocoon</a> from <a href="/wiki/Amyclae" title="Amyclae">Amyclae</a>, according to Hyginus. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Lynceus_of_Messenia" class="mw-redirect" title="Lynceus of Messenia">Lynceus</a></td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓ </td> <td>Son of Aphareus, from Messene; brother of Idas. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Meleager" title="Meleager">Meleager</a></td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓ </td> <td>Son of <a href="/wiki/Oeneus" title="Oeneus">Oeneus</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mopsus" title="Mopsus">Mopsus</a></td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓</td> <td> </td> <td>Son of <a href="/wiki/Ampycus" class="mw-redirect" title="Ampycus">Ampycus</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Nestor_(mythology)" title="Nestor (mythology)">Nestor</a></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Panopeus_(mythology)" title="Panopeus (mythology)">Panopeus</a></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Pelagon" title="Pelagon">Pelagon</a></td> <td> </td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td> </td> <td>Along with Hippalmus, attacked by the Boar, their bodies taken up by their comrades.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Peleus" title="Peleus">Peleus</a></td> <td>✓ </td> <td>✓ </td> <td>✓ </td> <td>✓ </td> <td>Son of <a href="/wiki/Aeacus" title="Aeacus">Aiakos</a>, father of <a href="/wiki/Achilles" title="Achilles">Achilles</a> from <a href="/wiki/Phthia" title="Phthia">Phthia</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_(son_of_Amyntor)" title="Phoenix (son of Amyntor)">Phoenix</a></td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓</td> <td> </td> <td>Son of <a href="/wiki/Amyntor_(son_of_Ormenus)" title="Amyntor (son of Ormenus)">Amyntor</a>, tutor and companion of <a href="/wiki/Achilles" title="Achilles">Achilles</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Phyleus" title="Phyleus">Phyleus</a></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td> </td> <td>From <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Elis" title="Ancient Elis">Elis</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Pirithous" title="Pirithous">Pirithous</a></td> <td>✓</td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓ </td> <td>Son of <a href="/wiki/Ixion" title="Ixion">Ixion</a>, from <a href="/wiki/Larissa" title="Larissa">Larissa</a>, the friend of Theseus. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Plexippus" title="Plexippus">Plexippus</a></td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓ </td> <td>One of the sons of <a href="/wiki/Thestius" title="Thestius">Thestius</a>, according to both Ovid and Apollodorus.<sup id="cite_ref-sons_of_Thespius_35-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sons_of_Thespius-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Castor_and_Pollux" title="Castor and Pollux">Polydeuces</a> </td> <td>✓ </td> <td>✓ </td> <td>✓ </td> <td>✓ </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Prothous" title="Prothous">Prothous</a></td> <td>✓</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Telamon" title="Telamon">Telamon</a></td> <td>✓ </td> <td>✓ </td> <td>✓ </td> <td>✓ </td> <td>Son of <a href="/wiki/Aeacus" title="Aeacus">Aeacus</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Theseus" title="Theseus">Theseus</a></td> <td>✓ </td> <td>✓ </td> <td>✓</td> <td>✓ </td> <td>Faced another dangerous creature, the dusky wild <a href="/wiki/Crommyonian_Sow" title="Crommyonian Sow">Crommyonian Sow</a>, on a separate occasion, which according to <a href="/wiki/Strabo" title="Strabo">Strabo</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-8.6.22_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8.6.22-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was said to be the mother of the Calydonian boar. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Toxeus" title="Toxeus">Toxeus</a></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td>✓</td> <td> </td> <td>One of the sons of <a href="/wiki/Thestius" title="Thestius">Thestius</a>, according to Ovid.<sup id="cite_ref-sons_of_Thespius_35-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sons_of_Thespius-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Calydonian_boar_hunt&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Erymanthian_boar" title="Erymanthian boar">Erymanthian boar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Mythological_pigs" title="Category:Mythological pigs">List of mythological pigs</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Calydonian_boar_hunt&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ex-collection the textiles merchant <a href="/wiki/Francis_Cook,_1st_Viscount_of_Monserrate" title="Francis Cook, 1st Viscount of Monserrate">Sir Francis Cook</a>, assembled in Victorian times at Doughty House, in Richmond, south-west London.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hard, p. 415, calls it "the greatest adventure in Aetolian legend".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hard, p. 416, describes the boar-hunt as being "almost as famous" as the voyage of the Argonauts.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rose, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=GKrACS_n86wC&dq=%22Aetolian+Boar%22&pg=PA66">p. 66</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Apollodorus-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Apollodorus_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Apollodorus_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Apollodorus_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Apollodorus_5-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Apollodorus</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.8.2">1.8.2</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Strabo" title="Strabo">Strabo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Geographica" title="Geographica"><i>Geography</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-eng1:10.3.6">10.3.6</a>, referring to events of the hunt, does remark "as the poet says".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Xenophon" title="Xenophon">Xenophon</a>, <i>Cynegetica</i> x provides some details of boar-hunting in reality; for other classical sources related to boar hunting see Aymard, pp. 297–329.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a> Library, Collection: "Art Images for College Teaching", ID <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/aict/x-gas170/gas170">GAS170</a>, title: "Treasury of Sikyon, Delphi: the Calydonian Boar, fragment of a metope".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hard, p. 413; Kerényi, p. 115.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:9.492-9.537">9.533ff.</a>; the poet's concern is with Meleager's role in the battle begun over the boar's carcass, which embroiled Meleager and the <a href="/wiki/Curetes_(tribe)" title="Curetes (tribe)">Curetes</a>, who were attacking his city of <a href="/wiki/Calydon" title="Calydon">Calydon</a>, rather than with the hunt itself, which he swiftly summarizes in a handful of lines.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Metamorphoses" title="Metamorphoses">Metamorphoses</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0959.phi006.perseus-eng1:8.260-8.364">8.284–289</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Metamorphoses" title="Metamorphoses">Metamorphoses</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0959.phi006.perseus-eng1:8.260-8.364">8.290–299</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8.6.22-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-8.6.22_13-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-8.6.22_13-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Strabo" title="Strabo">Strabo</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Geographica" title="Geographica">Geography</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-eng1:8.6.22">8.6.22</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The pelt remained a trophy at the temple of <a href="/wiki/Tegea" title="Tegea">Tegea</a>, which was enriched with prominent reliefs of the Calydonian boar hunt, in which the Boar took the central place in the composition. The temple, however, was dedicated not to Artemis, but to that other Virgin Goddess, <a href="/wiki/Athena_Alea" title="Athena Alea">Athena Alea</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Euripides" title="Euripides">Euripides</a>, fragment 520, noted by Kerényi, p. 119, with note 673.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">According to <a href="/wiki/Diodorus_Siculus" title="Diodorus Siculus">Diodorus Siculus</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4B*.html#34">4.34.4</a>, "He had honoured a stranger woman above them and set kinship aside".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kerényi, p. 115.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:9.538-9.580">9.547–549</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:8.47.2">8.47.2</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:8.46.1">8.46.1</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:8.46.5">8.46.5</a>. According to Mayor, pp. 142–143, such a tusk, almost a meter in length, would most likely have been a prehistoric elephant tusk.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:9.538-9.580">9.543–544</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Bacchylides" title="Bacchylides">Bacchylides</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0199.tlg001.perseus-eng1:5">5.111</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">For alphabetical lists of the hunters given by <a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hyginus" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyginus">Hyginus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Apollodorus</a>, see Parada, s.v. CALYDONIAN HUNTERS.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:8.45.6">8.45.6–7</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-1.42.6-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-1.42.6_26-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-1.42.6_26-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.42.6">1.42.6</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Hyginus" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyginus">Hyginus</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Fabulae" class="mw-redirect" title="Fabulae">Fabulae</a></i> 173.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Metamorphoses" title="Metamorphoses">Metamorphoses</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0959.phi006.perseus-eng1:8.260-8.364">8.299—317, 360</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Metamorphoses" title="Metamorphoses">Metamorphoses</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0959.phi006.perseus-eng1:8.260-8.364">8.306</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Metamorphoses" title="Metamorphoses">Metamorphoses</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0959.phi006.perseus-eng1:8.260-8.364">8.316–317</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Metamorphoses" title="Metamorphoses">Metamorphoses</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0959.phi006.perseus-eng1:8.365-8.450">8.391—402</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Metamorphoses" title="Metamorphoses">Metamorphoses</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0959.phi006.perseus-eng1:8.260-8.364">8.305</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-sons_of_Actor-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-sons_of_Actor_33-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-sons_of_Actor_33-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Ovid, <i><a href="/wiki/Metamorphoses" title="Metamorphoses">Metamorphoses</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0959.phi006.perseus-eng1:8.260-8.364">8.308</a>, says only that Actor's two sons (<i>Actoridaeque pares</i>) took part in the hunt, without naming them, elsewhere they are <a href="/wiki/Eurytus_and_Cteatus" title="Eurytus and Cteatus">Eurytus and Cteatus</a>, see <a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Apollodorus</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.7.2">2.7.2 with Frazer's note 2</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Metamorphoses" title="Metamorphoses">Metamorphoses</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0959.phi006.perseus-eng1:8.260-8.364">8.345</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-sons_of_Thespius-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-sons_of_Thespius_35-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-sons_of_Thespius_35-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-sons_of_Thespius_35-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-sons_of_Thespius_35-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-sons_of_Thespius_35-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">According to both Ovid and Apollodorus, the sons of <a href="/wiki/Thestius" title="Thestius">Thestius</a> took part in the hunt, scorned Atalanta, demanded the boar's skin, and were killed by Meleager (<a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Metamorphoses" title="Metamorphoses">Metamorphoses</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0959.phi006.perseus-eng1:8.365-8.450">8.432–444</a>; <a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Apollodorus</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.8.2">1.8.2–3</a>). In Ovid's account of the hunt, the sons were Plexippus and Toxeus; Apollodorus, in his account does, not say who the sons were, but elsewhere (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.7.10">1.7.10</a>) he says the sons were Plixippus, Eurypylus, Evippus, and Iphiclus.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Metamorphoses" title="Metamorphoses">Metamorphoses</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-metamorphoses/1916/pb_LCL042.431.xml">8.360–361 (Miller translation revised by Goold)</a>; Parada, s.vv. CALYDONIAN HUNTERS, Hippalmus 1.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ovid, <i>Metamorphoses</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Ov.+Met.+8.260&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0029:book=:chapter=&highlight=Hippalmon">8.360</a> (Latin ed. <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Magnus" title="Hugo Magnus">Hugo Magnus</a>)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Metamorphoses" title="Metamorphoses">Metamorphoses</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-metamorphoses/1916/pb_LCL042.431.xml">8.360–361 (Miller translation revised by Goold)</a>; Parada, s.vv. 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