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GODS AND MYTHS

Meleager / Census of Antique Art known to the Renaissance / Known prototypes / Woburn, Woburn Abbey (sarcophagus)
Meleager / Myths / Hunt of the Calydonian boar
Meleager / Myths / Meleager presenting the head of the boar to Atalanta

Further details

The first scene on the left: Meleager and Atalanta attacking the boar; the second scene on the right: Atalanta (holding the boar’s head) and Meleager after the hunt, with Amor/Eros standing between them.

Artist or creator

Ancient Roman

Date

300 (circa)

Location

Woburn, Woburn Abbey

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Carl Robert, Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs, Bd 3, Einzelmythen, Part 2, Hippolytos - Meleagros, Berlin 1904, pp. 288-289, no. 224; Guntram Koch, Die mythologischen Sarkophage, vol. 6 (Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs 12, 6), Berlin, 1975, p. 105, no. 71.

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

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