Calydonian Boar
Animal
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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В стихах 9.533–539 говорится, что горе пришло от Артемиды и что «стрелолюбивая, гневом пылая... вепря послала на них»; описание прямо называет вепря посланным Артемидой.
around the city of Calydon, and were slaying one another, the Aetolians defending lovely Calydon and the Curetes fain to waste it utterly in war. For upon their folk had Artemis of the golden throne sent a plague in wrath that Oeneus offered not to her the first-fruits of the harvest in his rich orchard land;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,
Il. 9.533–539
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In art
Peter Paul Rubens. The Hunting of the Calydonian Boar. Ashmolean Museum. Public domain. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111518157
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
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
Peter Paul Rubens. The Calydonian Boar Hunt. J. Paul Getty Museum. Public domain. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20183144
Peter Paul Rubens. The Caledonian Boar Hunt. Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK). Public domain. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21674393
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
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
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
Charles Le Brun. Atalanta and Meleager. Walker Art Gallery. Public domain. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107351627
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- Wikipedia · Calydonian boar hunt · CC BY-SA 4.0
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