Talk:Calydonian boar hunt

message: === Caps Lock Chapter ===
Namely : "THE STATES WHICH SENT HELP TO OENEUS"
To my knowledge there is no need for Caps Lock Chapters anywhere in Wikipedia. I shall therefore return it to lowercase letters. --VoiceOfThePnyx (talk) 15:21, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a good introduction yet almost exactly the same sentence now appears twice, in the introduction and the first sentence of the article. This should be altered. --VoiceOfThePnyx (talk) 15:19, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: Namely : "THE STATES WHICH SENT HELP TO OENEUS"
To my knowledge there is no need for Caps Lock Chapters anywhere in Wikipedia. I shall therefore return it to lowercase letters. --VoiceOfThePnyx (talk) 15:21, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Caps Lock Chapter 

message: I think the objection to the introduction ("too long") is that it violates journalistic practice by plunging too quickly into the scholarly background and history instead of highlighting briefly the most important features for the general reader.
It is, however, an excellently researched and illustrated article, and should not be over-edited or simplified. 
One could just make a paragraph break in the second sentence after "all the heroes of the new age take part.." But I would add the most famous detail about Atalanta from a later paragraph. And probably something of its origin in the offense to Artemis.
Here's a suggested revision and substitute for an introductory paragraph:
"The Calydonian Boar is one of the monsters of Greek mythology that had to be overcome by heroes of the Olympian age. Sent by Artemis to ravage the region of Calydon in Aetolia because its king failed to honor her in his rites to the gods, it was killed in the Calydonian Hunt, in which many male heroes took part, but also a powerful woman, Atalanta, who won its hide by first wounding it with an arrow. This outraged some of the men, with tragic results." 
:This is a good introduction yet almost exactly the same sentence now appears twice, in the introduction and the first sentence of the article. This should be altered. --VoiceOfThePnyx (talk) 15:19, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Introduction 

message: PS: There is a picture of a tusk of a straight-tusked elephant, but it is only referred to in a footnote. This is bad form indeed. Either remove the picture or, I would suggest, include mention of the elephant in the main article.
 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.192.112.144 (talk) 23:46, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  elephant tusk picture 

message: isn't Diana a roman goddess?
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity... (talk) 11:41, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diana 

message: Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that :File:Giulio Romano - Meleager et Atalanta.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on April 11, 2012. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2012-04-11. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! —howcheng  {chat} 16:59, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:File:Giulio Romano - Meleager et Atalanta.jpg]] to appear as POTD soon 

message: One source for the list of hunters is Apollodorus' Bibliotheca (1.8.2), which wasn't used here. It doesn't introduce any new names, but does include most of the names from Pausanias' list taken from the temple at Tegea & adds a few others. Is there a reason it wasn't included here? It was composed in the 1st century AD, which makes it earlier than Pausanias & contemporary with Hyginus & Ovid. -- llywrch (talk) 06:09, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  About the list of hunters