Meleager was a hero of Aetolia.

There is also another Laocoon who was the tutor or uncle of Meleager.

He was sent by Oineus as a chaperone for Meleager as an Argonaut.

Many of the men were angry that a woman was joining them, but Meleager, though married, lusted for Atalanta, and so he persuaded them to include her.

She was following Meleager who had put away his young wife for Atalanta's sake.

Antipater was the author of short elegiacs, some of which are preserved in the Greek Anthology, e. g., " Crown of Meleager ".

* Son of Thestius and either Leucippe, Laophonte, Deidameia or Eurythemis ; one of the Argonauts, and a participant in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar, where he was killed by Meleager.

Another source claims his wife was Polydora, daughter of Meleager.

In Greek mythology, Parthenopeus ( or Parthenopaeus ; English translation: " son of a pierced virgin ") was one of the Seven Against Thebes and the son of Atalanta and Hippomenes, Meleager, or Ares, or perhaps the son of Talaus.

In Greek mythology, Oeneus, or Oineus ( Οἰνεύς ) was a Calydonian king, son of Porthaon and Euryte, husband of Althaea and father of Deianeira, Meleager, Toxeus, Clymenus, Periphas, Agelaus, Thyreus ( or Phereus or Pheres ), Gorge, Eurymede, Mothone, Perimede and Melanippe ( although Meleager's and Deianeira's fathers could also have been Ares and Dionysus respectively ).

He sent Meleager out to find heroes to kill the Calydonian Boar, which was ravaging Calydon because Oeneus had forgotten to honor Artemis at the harvest ceremonies.

So began the Calydonian Hunt during which the boar was killed by Atalanta and Meleager.

It was the smitten Meleager who convinced them.

Nonetheless it was Atalanta who first succeeded in wounding the boar with an arrow, although Meleager finished it off, and offered the prize to Atalanta, who had drawn first blood.

Meleager's mother, sister of Meleager's slain uncles, took the fatal brand from the chest where she had kept it ( see Meleager ) and threw it once more on the fire ; as it was consumed, Meleager died on the spot, as the Fates had foretold.

She was also the wife of Oeneus, king of Calydon, and mother of five sons, Meleager, Melanippe ( one of the Meleagrids ), Toxeus, Thyreus, Clymenus, and two daughters, Deianeira and Gorge.

According to some writers, Meleager was the result of a liaison with the Greek god Ares, and Deianeira the progeny of Althaea and the god Dionysus.

When Meleager was born, the Moirai ( the Fates ) predicted he would only live until a brand, burning in the family hearth, was consumed by fire.

When Meleager was born from them, suddenly in the palace the Fates, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, appeared.

Meleager was one of the warriors who hunted the boar, along with the famous huntress Atalanta and Althaea ’ s brothers.

In Greek mythology, Meleager ( pronounced, ) was a hero venerated in his temenos at Calydon in Aetolia.

When Meleager was born, the Moirai ( the Fates ) predicted he would only live until a brand, burning in the family hearth, was consumed by fire.

The partition is a result of a compromise, essentially brokered by Eumenes, following a conflict of opinion between the party of Meleager, who wishes to give full power to Philip III ( the illegitimate son of King Philip II of Macedon by Philinna of Larissa ), and the party of Perdiccas, who wishes to wait for the birth of the heir of Alexander and his wife, Roxana ( the future Alexander IV ) to give him the throne under the control of a regent.

Among those who responded were some of the Argonauts, Oeneus ' own son Meleager, and, remarkably for the Hunt's eventual success, one woman — the huntress Atalanta, the " indomitable ", who had been suckled by Artemis as a she-bear and raised as a huntress, a proxy for Artemis herself ( Kerenyi ; Ruck and Staples ).

Althaea is especially celebrated in ancient story about the fate of her son Meleager ; they became the cause of each other ’ s deaths.

* A son of Oineus and brother of Meleager ( which makes him a nephew of the other Toxeus ).

According to some accounts, Hippomenes ( Melanion ) was the father of Parthenopaeus ; yet others stated Atalanta had her son by either Ares or Meleager prior to her marriage to Hippomenes.

Meleager was killed, and a compromise was engineered: Arrhidaeus would become king with the name of Philip, and he would be joined by Roxana's son as co-sovereign should he prove a male, as he did, and joined his uncle with the name of Alexander.

Meleager, son of Neoptolemus, is first mentioned in the war against the Getae ( 335 BC ).

A reconciliation was effected, principally by the intervention of Eumenes, and it was agreed that the royal authority should be divided between Arrhidaeus and the expected son of Roxana, and that in the mean time Meleager should be associated with Perdiccas in the regency.

Meleager of Macedon ( Greek: Μελέαγρος ) was the brother of Ptolemy Ceraunus and son of Ptolemy I Soter and Eurydice.

Deianira is the daughter of Althaea and Oeneus (" wine-man " and thus civilized ), the king of Calydon, and the sister of Meleager.

When Althaea found out that Meleager had killed her brother and one of her sons, Althaea placed the brand that she had stolen from the Fates ( the one that the Fates predicted, once engulfed with fire, would kill Meleager ) upon the fire, thus fulfilling the prophecy and killing Meleager.

In Greek mythology, the Meleagrids () were the daughters of Althaea and Oeneus, sisters of Meleager.

It was discovered by J. C. Watson on April 3, 1872, and named after Althaea, the mother of Meleager in Greek mythology.

# Laocoön ( half-brother of Oeneus and tutor of Meleager )

Meleager, in rage, killed them, which resulted in a war between the Calydonians and the Curetes, in which all of Oeneus ' sons, including Meleager, fell.

Oeneus sent Meleager to gather up heroes from all over Greece to hunt the Calydonian Boar that had been terrorizing the area, rooting up the vines, Oeneus having omitted Artemis at a festival in which he honored the other gods.

In the age of the emperor Tiberius ( or Trajan, according to others ) the work of Meleager was continued by another epigrammatist, Philippus of Thessalonica, who first employed the term anthology.

The Garland of Meleager was arranged in alphabetical order, according to the initial letters of the first line of each epigram.

He withdrew from the main body some 300 men who had followed Meleager at the time when he burst from the first meeting held after Alexander's death, and before the eyes of the entire army he threw them to the elephants.