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See also:MELEAGER (Gk. M€X aypos) , in See also:Greek See also:legend, the son of Oeneus, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Calydon, and See also:Althaea. His See also:father having neglected to See also:sacrifice to See also:Artemis, she sent a See also:wild See also:boar to ravage the See also:land, which was eventually slain by Meleager. A See also:war See also:broke out between the Calydonians and See also:Curetes (led by Althaea's See also:brothers) about the disposal of the See also:head and skin, which Meleager awarded as a See also:prize to See also:Atalanta, who had inflicted the first See also:wound; the brothers of Althaea See also:lay in wait for Atalanta and robbed her of the spoils, but were slain by Meleager. When Althaea heard this, she cursed Meleager, who withdrew, and refused to fight until the Curetes were on the point of capturing the See also:city of Calydon. Then, yielding to his wife's entreaties, he sallied forth and defeated the enemy, but was never seen again, having been carried off by the See also:Erinyes, who had heard his See also:mother's curse (or he was slain by See also:Apollo in See also:battle). According to a later tradition, not known to See also:Homer, the Moerae appeared to Althaea when Meleager was seven days old, and announced^ that the See also:child would only live as See also:long as the See also:log blazing on the See also:hearth remained unconsumed. Althaea thereupon seized the log, extinguished the flames, and hid it in a See also:box. But, after her brothers' See also:death, she relighted the log, and let it See also:burn away until Meleager died.3 Then, horrified at what she had done, she hanged herself, or died of grief. The sisters of Meleager were
2 The See also:god 'EXtoOv was also Phoenician; see See also:Driver, See also:Genesis, p. 165; See also:Lagrange, Religions Simitiques, See also:Index, s.v.
3 On the See also:torch as representing the See also:light of See also:life, see E. Kuhnert in Rheinisches Museum, x1ix., 1894, and J. See also:Grimm, See also:Teutonic See also:Mythology (Eng. trans. by J. Stallybrass, ,88o), ii. 853.
changed by Artemis out of compassion into See also:guinea fowls and removed to the See also:island of Leros, where they mourned See also:part of the See also:year for their See also:brother. The life and adventures of Meleager were a favourite subject in See also:ancient literature and See also:art. Meleager is represented as a tall, vigorous youth with See also:curly See also:hair, holding a See also:javelin or a boar's head, and accompanied by a See also:dog,
See R. See also:Kekule, De fabula meleagrea dissertatio (1861); Surber, See also:Die Meleagersage (See also:Zurich, 188o) ; articles on Meleager " and
Meleagrides " in See also:Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie; L. See also:Preller, Griechische Mythologie; See also:Apollodorus i. 8; Homer, Iliad, ix. 527; Died. Sic. iv. 34; Dio See also:Chrysostom, Or. 67; See also:Hyginus, Fab. 171; See also:Ovid, Metam. Viii. 260-545. In the See also:article GREEK ART (fig.
End of Article: MELEAGER (Gk. M€X aypos)
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