Greek mythology
Althaea
Queen of Calydon who burned the brand that held her son's life
- Mythology
- Greek mythology
- Group
- Mortal · Ruler
- Appears in
- Calydonian Boar
Althaea is the queen of Calydon and mother of Meleager, whose lifespan the Fates bind to a single log burning on her hearth. She snatches it from the flames and hides it, keeping her son alive. But when he kills her brothers in a quarrel over the boar's hide, grief and fury overcome her, and she casts the brand back into the fire to let him die.
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