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Calydonian Boar

The Calydonian Boar is one of the monsters of Greek mythology

Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
that had to be overcome by heroes of the Olympian age. Sent by Artemis

Artemis

Ravage

Ravage means to devastate or destroy something, wreaking destruction, ransacking.It may also refer to one of the following:*Ravage 2099, a fictional superhero, set in the far future, from Marvel Comics...
the region of Calydon

Calydon

Calydon was an ancient Greece city in Aetolia, situated on the west bank of the river Evenus. According to Greek mythology, the city took its name from its founder Calydon, son of Aetolus, son of Endymion....
in Aetolia

Aetolia

Aetolia is a mountainous region of Greece on the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth, forming the eastern part of the modern prefectures of Greece of Aetolia-Acarnania....
because its king failed to honor her in his rites to the gods, it was killed in the Calydonian Hunt, in which many male heroes took part, but also a powerful woman, Atalanta

Atalanta

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The Calydonian Boar is one of the monsters of Greek mythology

Greek mythology

Artemis

Ravage

Calydon

Aetolia

Atalanta

Atalanta is a character from ancient Greek mythology.After being told by an oracle she would be ruined if she were to marry, Atalanta set up a contest to win her hand in marriage....
, who won its hide by first wounding it with an arrow. This outraged some of the men, with tragic results. In some accounts the Calydonian Boar is described as an offspring of Crommyonian Sow.

The Importance of this Hunt in Greek Mythology and Art

The Calydonian Boar is one of the chthonic

Chthonic

Chthonic designates, or pertains to, deities or spirits of the underworld, especially in relation to Ancient Greek religion.Greek khthon is one of several words for "earth"; it typically refers to the interior of the soil, rather than the living surface of the Landscape or the land as territory ....
monsters in Greek mythology, each set in a specific locale. Sent by Artemis to ravage the region of Calydon in Aetolia

Aetolia

Aetolia is a mountainous region of Greece on the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth, forming the eastern part of the modern prefectures of Greece of Aetolia-Acarnania....
, it met its end in the Calydonian Hunt, in which all the heroes of the new age pressed to take part, with the exception of Heracles

Heracles

In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles meaning "glory of Hera", or "Glorious through Hera" Alcides or Alcaeus " was a hero, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson of Perseus....
, who vanquished his Goddess-sent boar separately: see Erymanthian Boar

Erymanthian Boar

In Greek mythology, the Erymanthian Boar is remembered in connection with Labours of Hercules, in which Heracles, the enemy of Hera, visited in turn "all the other sites of the Goddess throughout the world, to conquer every conceivable 'monster' of nature and rededicate the primordial world to its new master, his Olympian father," Zeus....
. Since the mythic event drew together numerous heroes —among whom were many who were venerated as progenitors of their local ruling houses among tribal groups of Hellenes

Greeks

The Greeks , also known as Hellenes, are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighbouring regions, who can also be found in Greek diaspora communities around the world....
into Classical times—the Calydonian Boar hunt 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. Like the quest for the Golden Fleece

Golden Fleece

In Greek mythology, the Golden Fleece is the fleece of the winged ram Chrysomallos . It figures in the tale of Jason and his band of Argonauts, who set out on a quest for the fleece in order to place Jason rightfully on the throne of Iolcus in Thessaly....
(Argonautica) or the Trojan War

Trojan War

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta....
that took place the following generation, the Calydonian Hunt is one of the nodes in which much Greek myth comes together.

Both Homer

Homer

Homer is traditionally held to be the author of the ancient Greek language epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as of the Homeric Hymns....
and Hesiod

Hesiod

Hesiod was a Greek language oral poet, his date is uncertain but leading scholars agree that Hesiod lived in the latter half of the Eighth-century BCE....
and their listeners were aware of the details of this myth, but no surviving complete account exists: some papyrus

Papyrus

Papyrus is a thick paper material produced from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland Cyperaceae that was once abundant in the Nile Delta of Egypt....
fragments found at Oxyrhynchus

Oxyrhynchus

Oxyrhynchus is a city in Upper Egypt, located about 160 km south-southwest of Cairo, in the governorate of Al Minya Governorate. It is also an archaeological site, considered one of the most important ever discovered....
are all that survive of Stesichorus

Stesichorus

Stesichorus was a Ancient Greece lyric poetry from Himera in Sicily, one of the nine lyric poets esteemed by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria as worthy of study....
' telling; the myth repertory called Bibliotheke
Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)

The Bibliotheca , in three books, provides a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends, "the most valuable mythographical work that has come down from ancient times," Aubrey Diller observed, whose "stultifying purpose" was neatly expressed in the epigram noted by Patriarch Photius I of Constantinople:...
("The Library") contains the gist of the tale, and before that was compiled the Roman poet Ovid told the story in some colorful detail in his Metamorphoses.

The story of the Hunt

King Oeneus

Oeneus

In Greek mythology, Oeneus, or Oineus was a Calydonian king, son of Porthaon, husband of Althaea and father of Deianira, Meleager and Melanippe....
("wine man") of Calydon

Calydon

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
north of the Gulf of Patras

Gulf of Patras

The Gulf of Patras is a branch of the Ionian Sea. On the east, it is closed by the Gulf of Corinth between capes Cape Rio and Antirrio, near the Rio-Antirio bridge....
, held annual sacrifices to the gods. One year the king forgot to include the Great Artemis

Artemis

In Greek mythology, Artemis was the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. She was the Hellenic goddess of forests and hills, child birth/virginity/fertility, the hunt and was often depicted as a huntress carrying a bow and arrows.....
in his offerings (Iliad ix.933). Insulted, Artemis loosed the biggest, most ferocious boar imaginable on the countryside of Calydon. It rampaged throughout the countryside, destroying vineyards and crops, forcing people to take refuge inside the city walls (Ovid), where they began to starve.

Oeneus sent messengers out to look for the best hunters in Greece

Greece

Argonauts

In Greek mythology, the Argonauts were a band of heroes who, in the years before the Trojan War, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece....
, Oeneus' own son Meleager

Meleager

Atalanta

Atalanta is a character from ancient Greek mythology.After being told by an oracle she would be ruined if she were to marry, Atalanta set up a contest to win her hand in marriage....
, 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

Meleager

In Greek mythology, Meleager was the son of Althaea and Oeneus and, according to some accounts father of Parthenopeus and Polydora. His story has similarities with the Scandinavian Norna-Gests ??ttr....
who convinced them. 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 Thestios, 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 Meleagros chose not to accept it. Outraged by this, Meleagros slew the sons of Thestios and again gave the skin to Atalanta (Bibliotheke). Meleager's mother, sister of Meleager's slain uncles, took the fatal brand from the chest where she had kept it (see Meleager

Meleager

In Greek mythology, Meleager was the son of Althaea and Oeneus and, according to some accounts father of Parthenopeus and Polydora. His story has similarities with the Scandinavian Norna-Gests ??ttr....
) 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.

During the hunt, Peleus

Peleus

In Greek mythology, Pele?s was a Greek hero cult who was already known to Homer. Peleus was the son of Aeacus, king of the island of Aegina, and Ende?s, the oread of Mount Pelion in Thessaly; he became the father of Achilles....
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 (Kerenyi, 114): "But the goddess again made a great stir of anger and crying battle, over the head of the boar and the bristling boar’s hide, between Kouretes

Korybantes

The Korybantes were the crested dancers who worshiped the Phrygian goddess Cybele with drumming and dancing. They are also called the Kurbantes in Phrygia, and Corybants in an older English language transcription....
and the high-hearted Aitolians

Aetolia

Aetolia is a mountainous region of Greece on the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth, forming the eastern part of the modern prefectures of Greece of Aetolia-Acarnania....
" (Homer

Homer

Homer is traditionally held to be the author of the ancient Greek language epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as of the Homeric Hymns....
, Iliad
ILiad

The iLiad is an electronic handheld device, or e-book device, which can be used for document reading and editing. Like the Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle, the iLiad makes use of an electronic paper display....
, ix.543).

The boar's hide that was preserved in the Temple of Athena Alae

Athena

In Greek mythology, Athena is the shrewd companion of Hero and the goddess of Hero endeavour. She is the virgin patron of Athens, which built the Parthenon to worship her....
at Tegea

Tegea

Tegea was a settlement in ancient Greece, and it is also a municipality in modern Arcadia, Greece, with its seat in the village Stadio.Ancient Tegea was an important religious center of ancient Greece, containing the Temple of Athena Alea....
in Laconia

Laconia

Laconia , also known as Lacedaemonia, is a prefecture in Greece. Laconia has the legal status of a Prefectures of Greece, with Sparti its administrative capital....
was reputedly that of the Calydonian Boar, "rotted by age and by now altogether without bristles" by the time Pausanias

Pausanias (geographer)

Pausanias was a Roman Greece traveller and geographer of the 2nd century AD, who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius....
saw it in the second century CE. He noted that the tusks had been taken to Rome as booty from the defeated allies of Mark Anthony

Mark Anthony

Mark Anthony may refer to:* Marc Anthony - singer/songwriter and husband of Jennifer Lopez* Marc Anthony - Scottish association football player...
by Augustus; "one of the tusks of the Calydonian boar has been broken", Pausanias reports, "but the remaining one, having a circumference of about half a fathom, was dedicated in the Emperor's gardens, in a shrine of Dionysos". The Calydonian Hunt was the theme of the temple's main pediment.

The Hunters

The heroes who participated assembled from all over Hellas, according to Homer; Bacchylides

Bacchylides

Bacchylides was an Ancient Greek Lyric poetry poet. Later Greeks included him in the canonical list of nine lyric poets which included his uncle Simonides....
called them "the best of the Hellenes"

The table lists:

Those seen by Pausanias on the Temple of Athena at Tegea
Tegea

Tegea was a settlement in ancient Greece, and it is also a municipality in modern Arcadia, Greece, with its seat in the village Stadio.Ancient Tegea was an important religious center of ancient Greece, containing the Temple of Athena Alea....
Those listed by Latin mythographer Hyginus
Gaius Julius Hyginus

Gaius Julius Hyginus was a Latin author, though whether a native of Spain or of Alexandria it is not clear, a pupil of the famous Alexander Cornelius, and a freedman of Caesar Augustus, by whom he was made superintendent of the Palatine library, according to Suetonius' minor works, De Grammaticis, 20....
(Fabulae 30); they include Deucalion
Deucalion

In Greek mythology, Deucalion was a son of Prometheus and Pronoia. When the anger of Zeus was ignited against the hubris of the Pelasgians, Zeus decided to put an end to the Ages of Man with the Deluge #The flood of Deucalion....
, whose connection is unlikely.
Those noted in Ovid's list

Hero	Tegea	Hyginus	Ovid	Notes
Acastus Acastus Acastus is a character in Greek mythology. He sailed with Jason and the Argonauts, and participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar....
Admetus Admetus In Greek mythology, Admetus /?d 'mi: t?s/ was a king of Pherae in Thessaly, succeeding his father Pheres after whom the city was named. Admetus was one of the Argonauts and took part in the Calydonian Boar hunt....				the son of Pheres, from Pherae Pherae Pherae was an ancient Greek town in southeastern Thessaly. In mythology, it was the home of King Admetus, whose wife, Alcestis, Heracles went into Hades to rescue....
Alcon Alcon (classical history) The name Alcon can refer to a number of people from classical myth and history:*Alcon , a son of Hippocoon, and one of the hunters of the Calydonian Boar....				one of three sons of Hippocoon or Ares from Amykles Amykles Amykles or Amikles is a village and an archaeological site located southwest of Sparta. The ancient city was founded by Amyclas, the son of Lacedaemon.... in Thrace
Amphiaraus Amphiaraus In Greek mythology, Amphiaraus was the son of Oicles and Hypermnestra, and husband of Eriphyle. Amphiaraus was the King of Argos along with Adrastus? the brother of Amphiaraus' wife, Eriphyle? and Iphis ....				the son of Oicles Oicles In Greek mythology, Oicles was an Argos, Greece king, father of Amphiaraus, son of Mantius and grandson of Melampus. He helped Heracles fight Laomedon and/or the sea monster attacking Troy and died in the battle.... , from Argos Argos Argos is a city in Greece in the Peloponnese near Nafplion, which was its historic harbour, named for Nauplius .... ; "As yet unruined by his wicked wife" (Ovid).
Ankaios Ancaeus The name Ancaeus or Ankaios is attributed to two heroes in Greek mythology. Both were among the Argonauts, and each met his death at the tusks of a boar....				"from Parrhasia Parrhasia (Arcadia) Parrhasia was a region in south Arcadia, Greece. Parrhasius , son of Lycaon gave it his name.Today, the area corresponds to the modern southwestern Arcadia west of Megalopoli and the southeastern Ilia prefecture.... " (Ovid), son of Lycurgus Lycurgus (Arcadia) Lycurgus, in Greek mythology, was the king of Arcadia. He was the son of Aleus, the previous ruler, and Neaera, daughter of Proteus. Lycurgus married either Cleophyle or Eurynome and bore these sons: Ancaeus, Epochus, Amphidamas, and Iasius.... , killed by the boar
Asclepius Asclepius Asclepius is the god of medicine and healing in ancient Greek mythology. Asclepius represents the healing aspect of the medical arts, while his daughters Hygieia, Meditrina, Iaso, Aceso, Aglaea and Panacea symbolize the forces of cleanliness, medicine, and healing, respectively....				son of Apollo
Atalanta Atalanta Atalanta is a character from ancient Greek mythology.After being told by an oracle she would be ruined if she were to marry, Atalanta set up a contest to win her hand in marriage....				called Tegeaea ("of Tegea") by Ovid, the daughter of Skoineus, from Arcadia Arcadia Arcadia, Arkad?a , or Arcady is a region of Greece in the Peloponnesus. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas....
Caeneus Caeneus In Greek mythology, Caeneus was a Lapith hero and originally a Thessaly woman, Caenis....				son of Elatus, not yet changed into a woman, Ovid noted
Castor and Pollux Castor and Pollux In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Castor and Pollux were the twin sons of Leda and Zeus/Tyndareus , the brothers of Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra and the half-brothers of Timandra , Phoebe, Heracles, Philonoe....				the Dioscuri, sons of Zeus Zeus Zeus in Greek mythology is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky father and List of thunder gods. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull , and oak.... and Leda Leda (mythology) In Greek mythology, Leda was daughter of the Aetolian king Thestius, and wife of the king Tyndareus, of Sparta. Her myth gave rise to the popular motif in Renaissance and later art of Leda and the Swan.... , from Lacedaemon
Deucalion Deucalion In Greek mythology, Deucalion was a son of Prometheus and Pronoia. When the anger of Zeus was ignited against the hubris of the Pelasgians, Zeus decided to put an end to the Ages of Man with the Deluge #The flood of Deucalion.... , son of Minos
Dryas Dryas Dryas is the name of nine characters in Greek mythology1. Dryas was the son of King Lycurgus , king of the Edoni in Thrace; "Shepherd of the People", Nestor calls him .... of Calydon				son of Ares Ares In Greek mythology, Ares is the son of Zeus and Hera. Though often referred to as the Twelve Olympians God of warfare, he is more accurately the god of bloodlust, or slaughter personified: "Ares is apparently an ancient abstract noun meaning throng of battle, war."... (Hyginus notes him as "son of Iapetus")
Echion Echion In Greek mythology, the name Echion, "[son] of the viper", echis) referred to five different beings.One of the Gigantes.One of the surviving Spartoi, the "sown men" that sprang up from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus; "it was Echion who, for his great valor, was preferred by Cadmus to be his son-in-law:" Echion was father of Pe...				son of Mercurius (Hermes Hermes Hermes is the messenger of the gods in Greek mythology. An Twelve Olympians, he is also the patron of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds and cowherds, of thieves and road travelers, of orators and wit, of literature and poets, of athletics, of weights and measures, of invention, of general commerce, and of the cunni... )
Eneasimus				one of three sons of Hippocoon or Ares from Amykles Amykles Amykles or Amikles is a village and an archaeological site located southwest of Sparta. The ancient city was founded by Amyclas, the son of Lacedaemon.... in Thrace
Epokhos
Euphemus Euphemus There are two figures in Greek mythology known as Euphemus "reputable".One was the son of Poseidon, granted by his father the power to walk on water....				son of Poseidon
Eurypylus Eurypylus In Greek mythology, Eurypylus was the name of several different people....
Eurytion Eurytion In Greek mythology Eurytion . "widely-honoured", was a name attributed to six individuals.*The king of Phthia, son of either Actor , or of Ctimenus, or of Irus and Demonassa, and father of Antigone ....				accidentally run through with the javelin of Peleus
Eurytus Eurytus In Greek mythology, Eurytus is the name of numerous characters.... , son of Mercurius (Hermes Hermes Hermes is the messenger of the gods in Greek mythology. An Twelve Olympians, he is also the patron of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds and cowherds, of thieves and road travelers, of orators and wit, of literature and poets, of athletics, of weights and measures, of invention, of general commerce, and of the cunni... )
Hippasus Hippasus (mythology) In Greek mythology, Hippasus is the name of nine characters.*Hippasus, father of Hippomedon, by the nymph Ocyrrhoe, and also of Charops, Socus, Agelaus, and Pammon.... , son of Eurytus
Hippothous Hippothous In Greek mythology Hippothous is the name of seven men.1. Hippothous son of Cercyon. He was one of the hunters of the Caledonian Boar. He later inherited the kingdom of Arcadia when king Agapenor did not return from the Trojan War....				the son of Kerkyon Cercyon Cercyon - ?e????? was a figure in Greek mythology. He was the King of Eleusis, and a very strong man. He was the son of Poseidon and one of the daughters of Amphictyon, or of Branchus and the nymph Argiope, or of Hephaestus.... , son of Agamedes, son of Stymphalos
Hyleus				killed by the boar
Iason Jason Jason was a late ancient Greece Greek mythology figure, famous as the leader of the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. He was the son of Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcus....				Aeson’s son, from Iolkos
Idas Idas In Greek mythology, Idas was a son of Aphareus and Arene and brother of Lynceus . He and Lynceus loved Hilaeira and Phoebe and fought with their rival suitors, Castor and Polydeuces, killing the mortal brother Castor....				and Lynceus, sons of Aphareus, from Messene Messene Messene is a town in the prefecture of Messinia in southern Greece. In antiquity, it was a Dorians city-state founded by Epaminondas in 369 BC, after the battle of Leuctra and the first Thebes invasion of the Peloponnese....
Iolaus Iolaus In Greek mythology, Iolaus or Iolaos was a Thebes, Greece divine hero, son of Heracles' brother Iphicles and Automedusa.He was famed for being Heracles' nephew and for helping with for some of his Labours of Hercules....				son of Iphicles, beloved of Heracles
Iphicles Iphicles In Greek mythology, Iphicles referred to three different people:#The half-brother of Heracles, being the son of Alcmene and her human husband Amphitryon whereas Heracles was her son by Zeus....				the twin of Heracles Heracles In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles meaning "glory of Hera", or "Glorious through Hera" Alcides or Alcaeus " was a hero, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson of Perseus.... , who took no part, Amphitryon Amphitryon Amphitryon, or Amphitrion, in Greek mythology, was a son of Alcaeus , king of Tiryns in Argolis.Amphitryon was a Thebes, Greece general, who was originally from Tiryns in the eastern part of the Peloponnese.... ’s mortal son, from Thebes Thebes, Greece Thebes is a city in Greece, situated to the north of the Cithaeron range, which divides Boeotia from Attica, Greece, and on the southern edge of the Boeotian plain....
Kepheus, from Arcadia Arcadia Arcadia, Arkad?a , or Arcady is a region of Greece in the Peloponnesus. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas....
Kometes and Prothous				the sons of Thestios Thestius In Greek mythology, Thestius was the son of either Ares and Demonice, or Agenor, son of Pleuron by Epicasta. He was the father of Iphicles with Leucippe .... , Meleager's uncles
Laertes Laertes In Greek mythology, La?rtes was the son of Arcesius and Chalcomedusa. He was the father of Odysseus and Ctimene by his wife Anticlea, daughter of the thief Autolycus....				son of Arcesius, Odysseus Odysseus Odysseus or Ulysses , in Greek mythology , was a legendary Greeks king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's Epic poetry, the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in the Epic Cycle.... ' father
Lelex Lelex In Greek mythology, Lelex was a King of Laconia . He was married to the Naiads nymph, Cleochareia. He had several sons, including Myles, Polycaon, Pterelaus, and Cteson....				of Naryx in Locria
Leucippus Leucippus Leucippus or Leukippos was the first to develop the theory of atomism ? the idea that everything is composed entirely of various imperishable, indivisible elements called atoms ? which was elaborated in far greater detail by his pupil and successor, Democritus....				one of three sons of Hippocoon or Ares from Amykles Amykles Amykles or Amikles is a village and an archaeological site located southwest of Sparta. The ancient city was founded by Amyclas, the son of Lacedaemon.... in Thrace
Lynceus Lynceus In Greek mythology, Lynceus in some myths is named as a descendant of Belus through Aegyptus, twin brother of Danaus. This myth when followed results in an impossible reconciliation loop.... and Idas
Meleager Meleager In Greek mythology, Meleager was the son of Althaea and Oeneus and, according to some accounts father of Parthenopeus and Polydora. His story has similarities with the Scandinavian Norna-Gests ??ttr....				son of Ooineus

Mopsus Mopsus In Greek mythology, Mopsus or Mopsos was the name of two famous seers....				son of Ampycus
Nestor Nestor (mythology) In Greek mythology, Nestor of Ger?nia was the son of Neleus and Chloris, and the King of Pylos. He became king after Heracles killed Neleus and all of Nestor's brothers and sisters....				"Still in his prime" Ovid says.
Panopeus
Peleus Peleus In Greek mythology, Pele?s was a Greek hero cult who was already known to Homer. Peleus was the son of Aeacus, king of the island of Aegina, and Ende?s, the oread of Mount Pelion in Thessaly; he became the father of Achilles....				son of Aiakos, father of Achilles Achilles In Greek mythology, Achilles was a Greeks hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad, which takes for its theme ; the Wrath of Achilles.... from Phthia Phthia Founded by Aiakos, grandfather of Achilles, it was the home of his father Peleus and his sea-nymph mother Thetis.Phthia is also an area in the 1988 Nintendo game "The Battle of Olympus," a playable level where the dragon Ladon and the god Hephaestus make their homes....
Phoenix				son of Amyntor Amyntor Amyntor , was an ancient Greek name attributed to several people both mythological and historical....
Phyleus Phyleus In Greek mythology, Phyleus was a son of King Augeas of Elis and father of Meges. He supported Heracles instead of his father and was exiled. After Heracles killed Augeas, he gave Phyleus the kingdom....				from Elis Elis Elis, or Eleia is an ancient district, that corresponds with the modern Elis Prefecture. It is in southern Greece on the Peloponnesos peninsula, bounded on the north by Achaea, east by Arcadia, south by Messenia, and west by the Ionian Sea....
Pirithous Pirithous In Greek mythology, Pirithous - ?e??????? was the King of the Lapiths in Thessaly and husband of Hippodamia , at whose wedding the famous Centauromachy occurred....				son of Ixion Ixion In Greek mythology, Ixion was king of the Lapiths, the most ancient tribe of Thessaly, and a son of Ares or Antion or the notorious evildoer Phlegyas, whose name connotes "fiery".... , from Larissa Larissa Larissa is a city and the capital of the Thessaly Peripheries of Greece of Greece, and capital of the Larissa Prefecture. It is a principal agricultural centre and a national transportation hub, linked by rail with the port of Volos and with Thessaloniki and Athens.... , the friend of Theseus
Plexippus Plexippus In Greek mythology, Plexippus participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar. He was angry that the prize of the boar's hide had been given to a woman by Meleager, who then killed him in the ensuing argument....				brother of Toxeus, slain by Meleager
Polydeuces Castor and Pollux In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Castor and Pollux were the twin sons of Leda and Zeus/Tyndareus , the brothers of Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra and the half-brothers of Timandra , Phoebe, Heracles, Philonoe....
Prothous and Kometes				the sons of Thestios, Meleager's uncles
Telamon Telamon In Greek mythology, Telamon , son of the king Aeacus, of Aegina, and Endeis and brother of Peleus, accompanied Jason as one his Argonauts, and was present at the hunt for the Calydonian Boar....				son of Aeacus Aeacus Aeacus was a Greek mythology king of the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf.He was son of Zeus and Aegina , a daughter of the river-god Asopus....
Theseus Theseus For other uses, see Theseus Theseus was a legendary king of Athens, son of Aethra , and fathered by Aegeus and Poseidon, with whom Aethra lay in one night.... of Athens				faced another dangerous chthonic creature, the dusky wild Crommyonian Sow Theseus For other uses, see Theseus Theseus was a legendary king of Athens, son of Aethra , and fathered by Aegeus and Poseidon, with whom Aethra lay in one night.... , on a separate occasion. Strabo Strabo Strabo was a Ancient Greeks history, geography and philosophy.... (Geography 8.6.22) reckoned she was the mother of the Calydonian Boar, but there are no hints within the myths to link the two and suggest Strabo might have been right.
Toxeus Toxeus In Greek mythology, Toxeus participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar. He was angry that the prize of the boar's hide had been given to a woman by Meleager, who then killed him in the ensuing argument....				brother of Plexippus, slain by Meleager

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