Atalanta and Meleager hunting the Wild Boar of Calydon, Depiction of Meleager (right) and his love Atlanta (center) hunting a giant, wild boar with the help of their cousins Castor and Pollux as told in Ovid's Metamorphoses. This is the moment right after Atalanta sics the dogs on the boar after just having mortally wounded the animal.

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