Oeneus, King of Calydon, offended Artemis and she took revenge by sending a vast wild boar to ravage his kingdom. The king’s son, Meleager, gathered a party of heroes to hunt the boar down, but the inclusion of Atalanta, a woman, sowed discord - which was just what Artemis had hoped would happen.

Artemis’s wild boar was killed by Meleager, but when he gave the hide to Atalanta his uncles objected, and the prince slew them. Queen Althaea was so grief-stricken that she engineered Meleager’s death by deliberately fulfilling a long-standing prophecy concerning it, and then took her own life. And so Artemis’s bitter vengeance on the king was complete.

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