Any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea.
1 Against the house she had planted myrtle, jasmine and althaea , and in the yard, fig, orange and oleander.
2 Althæa was in the temple making sacrifice to the gods.
3 In response, Althaea returned that ember to the fireplace, thus bringing about her own son's death.
4 As long as this was kept safe by Althaea , his mother, Meleager bore a charmed life.
5 They were brothers to Meleagrus's mother, Althæa .
6 MELEAGER, one of the Argonauts (See Althaea )
7 Now Althæa was a woman who had sight to see mysterious things, but who had also a wayward and passionate heart.
8 ALTHAEA , in classical legend, daughter of Thestius, king of Aetolia, wife of Oeneus, king of Calydon, and mother of Meleager (q.v..)
9 Althaea , mother of Meleager, whom she slew because he had in a quarrel killed her brothers, thus disgracing "the house of Thestius," her father.
10 "My brothers have been slain because a girl bewitched my son; then accursed be that son of mine," Althæa cried.
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