The hero Meleager

by Scan The World

This bust, sculpted in the Fourth Century BC by Skopas of Paros, depicts the Greek mythological hero Meleager. Meleager was the leader of the Calydonian boar hunt. The Iliad relates how Meleager’s father, King Oeneus of Calydon, had omitted to sacrifice to Artemis, who sent a wild boar to ravage th