Editing Meleagrids

In [[Greek mythology]], the '''Meleagrids''' ([[Ancient Greek]]: {{lang|grc|Μελεαγρίδες}}) are the sisters of the hero [[Meleager]], and daughters of [[Althaea (mythology)|Althaea]] and [[Oeneus]].

== 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]].

== Notes ==
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== References ==

* [[Claudius Aelianus]], ''On the Characteristics of Animals'', translated by Alwyn Faber Scholfield (1884–1969), from Aelian, ''Characteristics of Animals'', published in three volumes by Harvard/Heinemann, Loeb Classical Library, 1958. [https://topostext.org/work/560 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* Claudius Aelianus, ''De Natura Animalium,'' Latin translation by Friedrich Jacobs in the Frommann edition, Jena, 1832. [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Aelian/home.html Latin translation available at Bill Thayer's Web Site]
* Claudius Aelianus, ''De Natura Animalium,'' Rudolf Hercher. Lipsiae, in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1864.  [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0590 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Antoninus Liberalis]], ''The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis'' translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992). [https://topostext.org/work/216 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* [[Athenaeus|Athenaeus of Naucratis]], ''[[Deipnosophistae|The Deipnosophists]] or Banquet of the Learned.'' London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2013.01.0003 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library].
* Athenaeus of Naucratis, ''Deipnosophistae''. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2013.01.0001 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Gaius Julius Hyginus]], ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/206 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' with 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. {{ISBN|0-674-99328-4}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
* Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.  [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Ovid|Publius Ovidius Naso]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' translated by Brookes More (1859–1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0028 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* Publius Ovidius Naso, ''Metamorphoses.'' Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0029 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Suda|Suida]], ''Suda Encyclopedia'' translated 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. [https://topostext.org/work/240 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]

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