Meleagrids

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In Greek mythology, the Meleagrids (Ancient Greek: Μελεαγρίδες) are the sisters of the hero Meleager, and daughters of Althaea and Oeneus.

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When their brother died, the Meleagrides cried incessantly until Artemis changed them into guineafowl and transferred them to the island of Leros. [1] According to an alternate version cited in the dictionary of Suda, the Meleagrids were companions of Iocallis, a maiden of Leros who was honored as a deity. [2] Guinea fowl were kept in the shrine of The Maiden (likely Artemis) on Leros, [3] and the inhabitants of the island, as well as other worshippers of Artemis, abstained from eating the bird. [4]

The Meleagrids included Melanippe and Eurymede, [5] possibly also Mothone, [6] Perimede [7] and Polyxo. [8] Two other daughters of Oeneus, Gorge and Deianeira, were not transformed, since the former was married off to Andraemon, and the latter to Heracles.

Notes

  1. Antoninus Liberalis, 2; Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.532-545; Hyginus, Fabulae 174; Suda s.v. Meleagrides
  2. Suda, s.v. Meleagrides
  3. Athenaeus, 14.71 p. 655C
  4. Aelian, De Natura Animalium 4.42
  5. Antoninus Liberalis, 2
  6. Pausanias, 4.35.1
  7. Pausanias, 7.4.1
  8. Scholia on Homer, Iliad 9.584

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