Meleager in archaic Greek poetry: war and grief, wrath and vengeance
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https://doi.org/10.34624/fb.v0i19.34747Keywords:
archaic Greek poetry, myth, Meleager, war and wrath, grief and revengeAbstract
This article aims at discussing the images of Meleager in the tragic webs that interweave war and grief, wrath and revenge, mainly in archaic Greek poetry. The most extensive and well-preserved texts that are herein referred to are the Iliad and the famous embassy to Achilles (chant IX), and the 5th Epinician of Bacchylides. Through these and the bits and pieces we gather from other texts we learn of the ancient and well-known tradition that involves Meleager and his family – his father Oineus, his mother Althaia – in the context of war and under the divine wrath of Artemis. By doing so, it will reflect on the elements of the myth, its use in the epic poem and in the epinician, and the image of the central characters – mother and son – in the poems.
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