Editing Meleager (section)

==Biography==
Meleager was a Calydonian prince as the son of [[Althaea (Greek mythology)|Althaea]] and the [[vintner]] King [[Oeneus]]<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.9.16&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Meleager 1.9.16]; [[Antoninus Liberalis]], [https://topostext.org/work/216#2 2] as cited in [[Nicander|Nicander's]] ''Metamorphoses''</ref> or according to some, of the god [[Ares]].<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.8.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022 1.8.2]; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#14.3 14] & [https://topostext.org/work/206#171 171]</ref> He was the brother of [[Deianira|Deianeira]], [[Toxeus]], [[Clymenus]], [[Periphas]], [[Agelaus]] (or [[Ageleus]]), [[Thyreus (mythology)|Thyreus]] (or [[Phereus]] or [[Pheres]]), [[Gorge (mythology)|Gorge]], [[Eurymede]] and [[Melanippe]].<ref name=":0">[[Antoninus Liberalis]], [https://topostext.org/work/216#2 2] as cited in [[Nicander|Nicander's]] ''Metamorphoses''</ref><ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Catalogue of Women|Ehoiai]]'' [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HesiodCatalogues.html fr. 98] as cited in ''Berlin Papyri, No. 9777''</ref>

Meleager was the father of [[Parthenopeus]] by [[Atalanta]]<ref>Hyginus, ''[[Fabulae]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#70 70] & [https://topostext.org/work/206#99 99]</ref> but he married [[Cleopatra Alcyone|Cleopatra]], daughter of [[Idas]] and [[Marpessa]].<ref>Kerenyi 1959: Genealogical table F, p. 372.</ref> They had a daughter, [[Polydora]], who became the bride of [[Protesilaus]], who left her bed on their wedding-night to join the expedition to [[Troy]].