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Also known as the Aetolian Boar in Greek mythology, the Calydonian boar was sent as a punishment to the king of Calydon for having neglected to make sacrifice to Artemis. The boar made a wasteland of the countryside, destroying crops and human habitations. It was finally overcome when the king’s son, Meleager, called upon all Greek heroes to hunt it. It was finally shot by Atalanta and killed by Meleager himself. After its death, it continued to make trouble for each of the heroes wanted a trophy from its body to distinguish the feat of its heroic death. Such was the dissention over the apportioning of these trophies that even more destruction and death ensued.