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savage wild boar

sent by Diana against Oeneus

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Canonical name
savage wild boar
Disambiguator
sent by Diana against Oeneus
Kind
Animal
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
A stable individually tracked animal, explicitly killed and contested over; “monstrous” describes its size, while the source identifies it as a wild boar.

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Claims

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·Reported

Phoenix describes Diana’s boar as prodigious, white-tusked, destructive of blooming orchards, monstrous, and deadly.

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“a savage wild boar with great white tusks that did much harm to his orchard lands, uprooting apple-trees in full bloom and throwing them to the ground. But Meleager son of Oeneus got huntsmen and hounds from many cities and killed it—for it was so monstrous that not a few were needed, and many a man did it stretch upon his funeral pyre”

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·Remembered
“a savage wild boar with great white tusks”

Passage preview

Book 9 · Passage 24

‘I have an old story in my mind—a very old one—but you are all friends and I will tell it. The Curetes and the Aetolians were fighting and killing one another round Calydon—the Aetolians defending the city and the Curetes trying to destroy it. For Diana of the golden throne was angry and did them hurt because Oeneus had not offered her his harvest first-fruits. The other gods had all been feasted with hecatombs, but to the daughter of great Jove alone he had made no sacrifice. He had forgotten her, or somehow or other it had escaped him, and this was a grievous sin. Thereon the archer goddess in her displeasure sent a prodigious creature against him—a savage wild boar with great white tusks that did much harm to his orchard lands, uprooting apple-trees in full bloom and throwing them to the ground. But Meleager son of Oeneus got huntsmen and hounds from many cities and killed it—for it was so monstrous that not a few were needed, and many a man did it stretch upon his funeral pyre. On this the goddess set the Curetes and the Aetolians fighting furiously about the head and skin of the boar.