Meleagrids
InGreek mythology,theMeleagrids(Ancient Greek:Μελεαγρίδες) wereCalydonianprincesses as the daughters of QueenAlthaeaand KingOeneus,and sisters of the heroMeleager.
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When their brother died, the Meleagrides cried incessantly untilArtemischanged them intoguineafowland transferred them to the island ofLeros.[1]According to an alternate version cited in the dictionary ofSuda,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]
Hence the names of some species of guineafowl refer to the Meleagrids:Numida meleagrisandAgelastes meleagrides.Also the family name for turkeys isMeleagrididae.
The Meleagrids includedMelanippeandEurymede,[5]possibly alsoMothone,[6]Perimede[7]andPolyxo.[8]Two other daughters of Oeneus,GorgeandDeianeira,were not transformed, since the former was married off toAndraemon,and the latter toHeracles.
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- Claudius Aelianus,De Natura Animalium,Latin translation by Friedrich Jacobs in the Frommann edition, Jena, 1832.Latin translation available at Bill Thayer's Web Site
- Claudius Aelianus,De Natura Animalium,Rudolf Hercher. Lipsiae, in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1864.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Antoninus Liberalis,The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalistranslated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992).Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Athenaeus of Naucratis,The Deipnosophistsor Banquet of the Learned.London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Athenaeus of Naucratis,Deipnosophistae.Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus,Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginustranslated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Pausanias,Description of Greecewith an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.ISBN0-674-99328-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias,Graeciae Descriptio.3 vols.Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Ovidius Naso,Metamorphosestranslated by Brookes More (1859–1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Ovidius Naso,Metamorphoses.Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892.Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Suida,Suda Encyclopediatranslated by Ross Scaife, David Whitehead, William Hutton, Catharine Roth, Jennifer Benedict, Gregory Hays, Malcolm Heath Sean M. Redmond, Nicholas Fincher, Patrick Rourke, Elizabeth Vandiver, Raphael Finkel, Frederick Williams, Carl Widstrand, Robert Dyer, Joseph L. Rife, Oliver Phillips and many others.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
