Calydonian boar hunt
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
battle against the boar · the hunt for the boar · the hunt of the boar
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Epinicians
The mythic hunt and battle against the Calydonian boar, recounted by Meleager as the cause of his brothers' deaths and his own.
But when some god gave the upper hand to the Aetolians, we buried those whom the loud-roaring boar had killed in his violent attacks:
she sent an immensely violent boar, a ruthless fighter, to Calydon, the place of lovely choruses;
for strong-spirited Ares does not discern a friend in battle—shafts fly blindly from the hands against the souls of the enemy, and bring death to whomever the god wishes.