Meleager

[mel-ee-ey-jer]

noun

flourished 1st century b.c., Greek epigrammatist.
Classical Mythology. the heroic son of Althaea, an Argonaut, and the slayer of the Calydonian boar.Compare Calydonian hunt.

Also Mel·e·ag·ros

[mel-ee-ag-ros] /ˌmɛl iˈæg rɒs/.

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Historical Examples of meleager

Meleager saw it with joy, and called upon the others to follow.
Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew
Josephine Preston Peabody
But not for himself did Meleager despoil the body of his foe.
A Book of Myths
Jean Lang
Death of Meleager, and transformation of his sisters to birds.
The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II
Ovid
The remains of such an oecus may be seen in the houses of Meleager and of the Labyrinth.
Pompeii, Its Life and Art
August Mau
And nothing that Meleager could say would turn her from her purpose.
Children of the Dawn
Elsie Finnimore Buckley

British Dictionary definitions for meleager

Meleager

noun

Greek myth one of the Argonauts, slayer of the Calydonian boar

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