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Meleager logo #21000[king] Meleager of Macedon (Greek: Μελέαγρος) was the brother of Ptolemy Ceraunus and son of Ptolemy I Soter and Eurydice. Meleager ruled in 279 BC for two months until he was compelled by his Macedonian troops to resign his crown. ==Citations== ...
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Meleager logo #21003Greek poet who compiled the first large anthology of epigrams. This was the first of the collections that made up what is known as the Greek ... [1 related articles]
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Meleager logo #21003in Greek mythology, the leader of the Calydonian boar hunt. The Iliad relates how Meleager`s father, King Oeneus of Calydon, had omitted to sacrifice ... [2 related articles]
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Meleager logo #20688(lived 1st century BC) Greek philosopher and epigrammatist. Born at Gadara in the Decapolis, he was educated at Tyre, but spent the remainder of his life on the island of Kos. He compiled an
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Meleager logo #20688In Greek mythology, one of the Argonauts. He organized a hunt to kill the huge boar that ravaged his father's kingdom of Calydon. A quarrel arose over distribution of the spoils, and Meleager killed...
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Meleager logo #10444In mythology, Artemis sent a boar to ravage the land of Kalydon as they had not sacrificed enough to her. Meleager organised an expedition to kill the boar.
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Meleager logo #21217Meleager was an ancient Greek poet who wrote epigrams.
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Meleager logo #21217In Greek mythology, Meleager was the son of Gineus, king of Calydon. He distinguished himself in the Argonautic expedition and more particularly at the Calydonian hunt, killed the boar, and gave its skin as the highest token of regard to his beloved Atalanta.
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Meleager logo #23405Son of Althaea; his life would last as long as brand burning at his birth; Althaea quenched and saved it but destroyed it when Meleager slew his uncles.
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