Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (7)

• Meleager and the Calydonian Hunt (Atalanta’s Role)
  Heroes — Calydonian / Meleager · Apollodorean (pan-Hellenic muster; Atalanta first wound; Meleager awards the hide; quarrel with uncles)
• Death of Meleager: The Brand of the Fates (Althaea)
  Heroes — Calydonian / Meleager · Apollodorean / Bacchylidean (Moirae’s brand; Althaea burns it after the uncles’ deaths)
• Meleager in Homer: Phoenix’s Digression (*Iliad* 9)
  Heroes — Calydonian / Meleager · Homeric — Phoenix to Achilles (anger, withdrawal, city’s peril; no Fate-brand)
• Phoenix’s Speech in the Embassy (*Iliad* 9)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Embassy to Achilles · Homeric — Phoenix’s Meleager paradeigma within Book 9
• Phoenix’s Meleager Paradeigma (*Iliad* 9)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Embassy to Achilles · Homeric — Meleager’s wrath as warning paradeigma inside Phoenix’s speech
• Oreithyia and Boreas
  Local and lesser — Attic / Thracian wind myth · Apollodorean / Platonic Attic (abduction from the Ilissus); Herodotus on Boreas as Athenian ally
• The Meleagrides: Sisters of Meleager Become Birds
  Local and lesser — Calydonian aftermath / bird metamorphosis · Antoninus Liberalis (Greek) + Ovid-labeled Roman enrichment — mourning sisters turned into meleagrides (guinea-fowl)

Places appearing with them

• Argos
• Artemisium / Magnesia
• Calydon
• Greek camp at Troy
• Hades
• House of Meleager
• Hut of Achilles by the Myrmidon ships
• Mount Helicon
• Mysia
• Pleuron
• Troezen

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Revenge
• Underworld
• War