Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 8.45.6: depiction of Atalanta participating in the Calydonian boar hunt on the gable of the temple of Athena Alea

Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 8.45.6: depiction of Atalanta participating in the Calydonian boar hunt on the gable of the temple of Athena Alea

mid 2nd century CE

Travel writing

Literary source

On the front gable is the hunting of the Calydonian boar. The boar stands right in the center. On one side are Atalanta, Meleager, Theseus, Telamon, Peleus, Polydeuces, Iolaus, the partner in most of the labours of Heracles, and also the sons of Thestius, the brothers of Althaea, Prothous and Cometes.

William H. S. Jones, Pausanias, Description of Greece, vol. 4, Books 8.22-10 (= Loeb Classical Library; 297), London 1935.

τὰ δὲ ἐν τοῖς ἀετοῖς ἐστιν ἔμπροσθεν ἡ θήρα τοῦ ὑὸς τοῦ Καλυδωνίου: πεποιημένου δὲ κατὰ μέσον μάλιστα τοῦ ὑὸς τῇ μέν ἐστιν Ἀταλάντη καὶ Μελέαγρος καὶ Θησεὺς Τελαμών τε καὶ Πηλεὺς καὶ Πολυδεύκης καὶ Ἰόλαος, ὃς τὰ πλεῖστα Ἡρακλεῖ συνέκαμνε τῶν ἔργων, καὶ Θεστίου παῖδες, ἀδελφοὶ δὲ Ἀλθαίας, Πρόθους καὶ Κομήτης:

Frederick Spiro (ed.), Pausaniae Graeciae Descriptio, vol. 2, Leipzig 1903.