Against the house she had planted myrtle, jasmine and althaea, and in the yard, fig, orange and oleander.

Althæa was in the temple making sacrifice to the gods.

In response, Althaea returned that ember to the fireplace, thus bringing about her own son's death.

As long as this was kept safe by Althaea, his mother, Meleager bore a charmed life.

They were brothers to Meleagrus's mother, Althæa.

MELEAGER, one of the Argonauts (See Althaea)

Now Althæa was a woman who had sight to see mysterious things, but who had also a wayward and passionate heart.

ALTHAEA, in classical legend, daughter of Thestius, king of Aetolia, wife of Oeneus, king of Calydon, and mother of Meleager (q.v..)

Althaea, mother of Meleager, whom she slew because he had in a quarrel killed her brothers, thus disgracing "the house of Thestius," her father.

"My brothers have been slain because a girl bewitched my son; then accursed be that son of mine," Althæa cried.