Oeneus and Althaea, king and queen of Calydon, were parents of Meleager and Deianira. The Moirai bound Meleager's life to a firebrand at birth, which Althaea preserved until grief drove her to burn it.
Tydeus was a son of Oeneus, king of Calydon. Exiled after killing a kinsman, Tydeus went to Argos where he married and fathered Diomedes, one of the greatest Greek warriors at Troy.
The river god Achelous courted Oeneus's daughter Deianira. Oeneus was reluctant to accept the shape-shifting river deity as a son-in-law, and Heracles defeated Achelous in a wrestling match for her hand.
Oeneus neglected to include Artemis in his harvest sacrifices at Calydon, provoking the goddess to send the monstrous Calydonian Boar to devastate his kingdom's fields and orchards.
The Calydonian Boar was sent by Artemis to ravage the lands of Oeneus after he failed to honor her in his sacrifices. His son Meleager organized the great hunt that killed the beast.
Oeneus's daughter Deianira married Heracles after he defeated the river god Achelous. Her departure from Calydon left the aging king increasingly isolated before his eventual deposition by Agrius.
Diomedes, grandson of Oeneus, marched against Calydon to avenge the deposed king after Agrius and his sons seized the throne. Diomedes restored Oeneus's honor and killed or exiled the usurpers.
Dionysus visited Oeneus at Calydon and gave him the gift of the grapevine, teaching him viticulture. While a guest in Oeneus's house, Dionysus lay with his wife Althaea and fathered Deianira.
⚠ Apollodorus (Bibliotheca 1.8.1) names Dionysus as Deianira's father; most other sources give Oeneus as her father.
Meleager led the hunt against the Calydonian Boar that Artemis sent to punish his father Oeneus. Though the hunt succeeded, the ensuing quarrel over the boar's hide led to Meleager's death.
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