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Meleager

Proper noun

Meaning

Meleager

(Ancient Greek mythology) A hero venerated in his temenos at Calydon in Aetolia, famed as the host of the Calydonian boar hunt, and mentioned as one of the Argonauts.

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Examples

I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager. Edgar Allan Poe

After Meleager finally killed the boar with his spear, he awarded the hide to Atalanta. Source: Internet

A similar myth of immortalizing a child in fire is connected to Demeter (compare the myth of Meleager ). Source: Internet

In disappointment Meleager joined the Argo, but Atalanta would not let him out of her sight. Source: Internet

Many of the men were angry that a woman was joining them, but Meleager, though married, lusted for Atalanta, and so he persuaded them to include her. Source: Internet

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