Meleager of Calydon was mentioned in the Iliad regarding hunting down a wild boar sent by Artemis. He is the son of Althea and King Oneus of Calydon and is not to be confused with later historical figures like General Meleager who served with Alexander the great.
Meleager. has written: 'Fifty poems of Meleager'
That he would live as long as a log in the fire that his mother Althaea was sitting beside was intact - i.e., if the log finished burning, Meleager would die.
When Meleager was born, the Moirae (the Fates) predicted he would only live until a brand, burning in the family hearth, was consumed by fire. Overhearing them, Althaea (his mother) immediately doused and hid the brand. 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.
Oeneus.
No.
Meleager.
Althaea and Oeneus.
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no... no one is or was except God
The hide of the Calydonian boar.
Meleager, Prince of Calydon
Because he is so smart