CLA204H1 Lecture 7: CLA204 Lecture 7 Notes
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Greek heroes ii meleager, orpheus, athens and theseus. Calydon meleager met herakles in the underworld. Meleager/meleagros son of ares of oeneus (king of aetolian calydon) in voyage of the argonauts list of heroes in argonauts overlaps with list of those in calydonian boar hunt. Mother althea oeneus spurns, forgot to sacrifice goddess artemis sends wild boar as revenge. Homer meleager goes to kill boar. Curetes and aetolians artemis stirs up strife over the head and hide of the boar leads to violent battle meleager fought and aetolians are winning. Meleager withdraws from battle angered at his mother she curses him for. Moirai (fates) predict his life to be co-extensive with log in the fire will live as long as the long survives. Mother althea removes log from the fire and keeps it safe after meleager kills her brothers after the boar hunt althea returns log to fire.
