Althaia (page 331 with art)

Chapter 11: The Daughters of Thestios

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♠ Soph Fr 401 R – Sophokles, Meleagros – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta 4, p. 346, ed. S. L. Radt. Göttingen 1977.

The goddess, far-darting child of Leto, sent a huge monster of a boar to the land of Oineus.  (Transl. E. Bianchelli)

♠ ΣA Il 9.575 – Scholia A to Homer, Iliad – Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem I, p. 332, ed. W. Dindorf and E. Maass. Oxford 1875.

Priests] so then Sophokles in his Meleager brought forth the chorus of priests.  (Transl. E. Bianchelli)  Greek Text

Florence Museo Archeologico 4209.  Attic crater, the “Francois Vase.”  Hunt of the Calydonia Boar, Melanion with Atalanta, Peleus with Meleagros.

Bing images

Same, Kastor and Polydeukes behind the boar.

Greek Painted Pottery

Munich, Antikensammlungen 2243.  Attic cup.  Hunt of the Kalydonian Boar.

Furtwaengler Reichold

Tubingen Antikensammlung  S/12 2452.  Tyrrhenian amphora, Hunt of the Kalydonian Boar.

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Città del Vaticano, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco. 306.   Hunt of the Calydonian Boar.

Copenhagen, National Museum 13567.  Hunt of the Calydonian Boar.

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Artistic sources edited by R. Ross Holloway, Elisha Benjamin Andrews Professor Emeritus, Brown University, October 2017.

Literary sources edited by Elena Bianchelli, Retired Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, March 2024.

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