Calydonian Boar
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The Calydonian boar hunt is one of the great heroic adventures in Greek legend. It occurred in the generation prior to that of the Trojan War, and stands alongside the other great heroic adventure of that generation, the voyage of the Argonauts, which preceded it.
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Mentions in the Iliad
A. T. Murray, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1924 · Homer, Iliad with an English Translation · CC BY-SA 3.0 US
“whereas the other gods feasted on hecatombs, and it was to the daughter of great Zeus alone that he offered not, whether haply he forgat, or marked it not; and he was greatly blinded in heart. Thereat the Archer-goddess, the child of Zeus, waxed wroth and sent against him a fierce wild boar, white of tusk,”
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Peter Paul Rubens. The Hunting of the Calydonian Boar. Ashmolean Museum. Public domain. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111518157
Jacob van Schuppen. Meleager Kills Calydon Boar. Musée Fabre. Public domain. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117307265
Peter Paul Rubens. The Calydonian Boar Hunt. J. Paul Getty Museum. Public domain. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20183144
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Peter Paul Rubens. The Caledonian Boar Hunt. Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK). Public domain. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21674393
Hans Bol. Melager hands over the head of the Calydonian boar to Atalanta. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Public domain. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50323472
Battista Dossi. The Hunt of the Calydonian Boar. El Paso Museum of Art. Public domain. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65935729
Charles Le Brun. Atalanta and Meleager. Walker Art Gallery. Public domain. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107351627
Peter Paul Rubens. Meleager and Atalanta and the Hunt of the Calydonian Boar. Norton Simon Museum. Public domain. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111081278
Peter Paul Rubens. Meleager presenting to Atalanta the head of the Calydonian boar, circa 1640. Public domain. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111673972
Peter Paul Rubens. The hunt of Meleagros and Atalante. Kunsthistorisches Museum. Public domain. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27979753
Jacob Jordaens. Мелеагр и Аталанта. Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. CC0. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6009533
Guglielmo della Porta. Hunt of the Calydonian Boar. National Gallery of Art. CC0. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63860873
Hydrie cérétaine (Louvre, Cp 63). Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities of the Louvre. Public domain. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138782835
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- Wikipedia · Calydonian boar hunt · CC BY-SA 4.0
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