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  • When she grew up, she took part in the famous hunt of the Calydonian Boar and drew first blood, pausing only to kill two centaurs who tried to rape her on the hunting field.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008

  • Six Underworld Security Agents were lumbering toward him, clubs poised, apparently not glutted on Calydonian boar.

    The Shadow Thieves Anne Ursu 2006

  • Six Underworld Security Agents were lumbering toward him, clubs poised, apparently not glutted on Calydonian boar.

    The Shadow Thieves Anne Ursu 2006

  • Six Underworld Security Agents were lumbering toward him, clubs poised, apparently not glutted on Calydonian boar.

    The Shadow Thieves Anne Ursu 2006

  • Six Underworld Security Agents were lumbering toward him, clubs poised, apparently not glutted on Calydonian boar.

    The Shadow Thieves Anne Ursu 2006

  • Six Underworld Security Agents were lumbering toward him, clubs poised, apparently not glutted on Calydonian boar.

    The Shadow Thieves Anne Ursu 2006

  • Calydonian boar, and that hence it came to be a proverb, Not without Theseus; that he himself, however, without aid of any one, performed many glorious exploits, and that from him began the saying, He is a second Hercules.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • The trophies of the ever-memorable boar-hunt had been carried by Atalanta into Arcadia, and, for many centuries, the identical hide and enormous tusks of the Calydonian boar hung in the temple of Athene at Tegea.

    Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

  • The former bore this insignia in honour of the renowned hero Heracles, the latter in memory of the famous Calydonian boar-hunt.

    Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

  • Their names appear both among the hunters of the Calydonian boar-hunt and the heroes of the Argonautic expedition.

    Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

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