(31.) For the myth of
Meleager see Gantz 1993, 8; for the role of
Mr Grosvenor said he believed it was a precursor to Jordaens's painting of the mythical huntress Atalanta and her suitor,
Meleager, in the Prado art gallery in Madrid.
I learned to write from authors like Callimachus and
Meleager, including the Roman elegists (Catullus and Propertius, but less so Tibullus), and the indispensable Martial and Ausonius.
Most of the 20 essays are in German; the nine in English consider such topics as Job's wife and the struggle for Job's transformation, different approaches to evil and death in the ethics of the non-canonical Jewish writings, the post-mortem divisions of the dead in 1 Enoch 22:1-13, death and cultus as constitutive of the human in the Epistle to the Hebrews, and narrating
Meleager's deeds and death in words and images.
Amber, too, is associated in classical legend with mourning and commemoration, being the concentration of the tears of the sisters of
Meleager, bewailing the death of their brother: by implication, family history, as amber's 'reverse', might be imagined as a form of forgetting, of not commemorating those who have been lost.
(16.) According to his biography by Sainte-Beuve, Chateaubriand and his friend Louis de Fontanes used to promenade in the Tuileries gardens, where there stood a statue of
Meleager and the Calydonian boar (II: 122).
He might have helped to weave the garland of
Meleager, or to mix the lapis lazuli of Fra Angelico, or to chase the delicate truth in the shade of an Athenian palaestra, or his hands might have fashioned those ethereal faces that smile in the niches of Chartres.