CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

Regarded as second only to Herakles in his abilities, Meleager was the youngest of the Argonauts. He returned safe from his travels but his life was still to be short. In revenge for his father forgetting his sacrifices to her, Artemis unleashed a fearsome boar in his homeland, and Meleager took a leading role in the hunt which became known as the Calydonian boar hunt and which ultimately led to his own death. For similar, see S. Woodford, 'Meleagros', LIMC VI, Zurich and Munich, 1992, no. 121-4.