Meleager (Greek: Meleagros) is a hero from Greek mythology who famously led an expedition to kill the Calydonian boar which was terrorizing the kingdom of Oeneus in Aetolia in central-western Greece. Appearing in Homer's Iliad and the later epics the Ehoiai and Minyas, the story was a popular subject in Greek and later art from pottery decoration to sculpted sarcophagi.
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c. 800 BCE - c. 700 BCEHomer of Greece writes his Iliad and Odyssey.
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c. 570 BCE - c. 560 BCEThe black-figure Francois Vase is produced in Attica by Ergotimos (potter) and Kleitias (painter).
