Editing Meleagrids (section)

== Mythology ==
When their brother died, the Meleagrides cried incessantly until [[Artemis]] changed them into [[guineafowl]] and transferred them to the island of [[Leros]].<ref>[[Antoninus Liberalis]], [https://topostext.org/work/216#2 2]; [[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' 8.532-545; [[Hyginus (Fabulae)|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#174 174]; ''[[Suda]]'' s.v. ''Meleagrides''</ref> According to an alternate version cited in the dictionary of [[Suda]], the Meleagrids were companions of Iocallis, a maiden of Leros who was honored as a deity.<ref name="Suda">Suda, s.v. ''Meleagrides''</ref> Guinea fowl were kept in the shrine of The Maiden (likely Artemis) on Leros,<ref>[[Athenaeus]], 14.71 p. 655C</ref> and the inhabitants of the island, as well as other worshippers of Artemis, abstained from eating the bird.<ref>[[Claudius Aelianus|Aelian]], ''De Natura Animalium'' 4.42</ref>

The Meleagrids included [[Melanippe]] and [[Eurymede]],<ref name="Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 2">Antoninus Liberalis, [https://topostext.org/work/216#2 2]</ref> possibly also [[Methone (Greek myth)|Mothone]],<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], 4.35.1</ref> [[Perimede (mythology)|Perimede]]<ref>Pausanias, 7.4.1</ref> and [[Polyxo]].<ref>[[Scholia]] on [[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' 9.584</ref> Two other daughters of Oeneus, [[Gorge (mythology)|Gorge]] and [[Deianeira]], were not transformed, since the former was married off to [[Andraemon]], and the latter to [[Heracles]].