Meleager
Meleager of Scopas the last generation of the polyckeitan school
Similar to Lysippus, Scopas is in his art a successor of the Classical Greek sculptor Polycleitos. The faces of the heads almost in quadrat with deeply sunken eyes and a slightly opened mouth are specific characters in the figures of Scopas. Meleager. Roman copy from 340-330 BC. Pergamon Museum, Berlin.
Deutsch: Statue des Meleagros, römische Kopie nach einer griechieschen Bronzestatue, um 340-330 v. Chr.
English: Statue of Meleager, Roman copy after a Greek bronze original, ca. 340–330 BC.
Français : Statue de Méléagre, copie romaine d'un original en bronze grec, v. 340-330 av. J.-C.
Meleager was among the ARGONAUTS and the CALYDONIAN HUNTERS. He died in a war which he might have provoked, or else because a certain piece of wood was consumed by fire.
Prophecy
When Meleager was seven days old, the three MOERAE appeared and declared that the child should die once the brand burning on the hearth was burnt out. Clotho said that he would be noble and Lachesis that he would be brave, but Atropus looked at the brand burning on the hearth and declared:
"He will live only as long as this brand remains unconsumed." (Hyginus, Fabulae 171).
Meleager's mother Althaea, having thus being informed of her child's fate, took up the brand and put it into a chest. But many years later this same brand was set afire again and Meleager died.
ARGONAUTS and CALYDONIAN HUNTERS
In the meantime Meleager, who was virtually invulnerable, joined the ARGONAUTS and sailed with them from Hellas to Colchis in Caucasus in order to fetch the Golden Fleece. At their return, many among those who had been ARGONAUTS participated in what became known as the Calydonian Boar Hunt. This hunt took place because because Meleager's father, King Oeneus 2 of Calydon, while sacrificing the first fruits of the annual crops of the country to all the gods, had forgotten Artemis. To punish his negligence, the goddess sent a boar of extraordinary size and strength that prevented the land from being sown, and destroyed both cattle and people. To get rid of the nuisance, King Oeneus 2 assembled the noblest men of Hellas—today known as the CALYDONIAN HUNTERS—, promising to give the Boar's skin as a prize to him who should kill the beast.
Meleager
Meleager of Scopas the last generation of the polyckeitan school
Similar to Lysippus, Scopas is in his art a successor of the Classical Greek sculptor Polycleitos. The faces of the heads almost in quadrat with deeply sunken eyes and a slightly opened mouth are specific characters in the figures of Scopas. Meleager. Roman copy from 340-330 BC. Pergamon Museum, Berlin.
Deutsch: Statue des Meleagros, römische Kopie nach einer griechieschen Bronzestatue, um 340-330 v. Chr.
English: Statue of Meleager, Roman copy after a Greek bronze original, ca. 340–330 BC.
Français : Statue de Méléagre, copie romaine d'un original en bronze grec, v. 340-330 av. J.-C.
Meleager was among the ARGONAUTS and the CALYDONIAN HUNTERS. He died in a war which he might have provoked, or else because a certain piece of wood was consumed by fire.
Prophecy
When Meleager was seven days old, the three MOERAE appeared and declared that the child should die once the brand burning on the hearth was burnt out. Clotho said that he would be noble and Lachesis that he would be brave, but Atropus looked at the brand burning on the hearth and declared:
"He will live only as long as this brand remains unconsumed." (Hyginus, Fabulae 171).
Meleager's mother Althaea, having thus being informed of her child's fate, took up the brand and put it into a chest. But many years later this same brand was set afire again and Meleager died.
ARGONAUTS and CALYDONIAN HUNTERS
In the meantime Meleager, who was virtually invulnerable, joined the ARGONAUTS and sailed with them from Hellas to Colchis in Caucasus in order to fetch the Golden Fleece. At their return, many among those who had been ARGONAUTS participated in what became known as the Calydonian Boar Hunt. This hunt took place because because Meleager's father, King Oeneus 2 of Calydon, while sacrificing the first fruits of the annual crops of the country to all the gods, had forgotten Artemis. To punish his negligence, the goddess sent a boar of extraordinary size and strength that prevented the land from being sown, and destroyed both cattle and people. To get rid of the nuisance, King Oeneus 2 assembled the noblest men of Hellas—today known as the CALYDONIAN HUNTERS—, promising to give the Boar's skin as a prize to him who should kill the beast.