ATALANTA AND MELEAGER - MYTH, METAMORPHOSIS AND PAINTING

 

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/26073/26073-h/26073-h.htm#bookVIII_fableIV - Ovid's Metamorphoses (Project Gutenberg)

Pompeii fresco - the Calydonean boar hunt

https://www.facebook.com/museonacionaldelprado/videos/951412890139583 Jacob Jordaens - Atalanta and Meleagre - Museo del Prado Madrid

Answer the following questions:

1. What Latin writer told the story of Atalanta and Meleagre? In what work?

2. What is the story of Atalanta and Meleagre?

3. When was the painting painted?

4. Who is the painter?

5. What is the peculiarity of the painting?