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ATALANTA

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 823 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ARN-AUD
ATALANTA , in Greek legend, the name of two Greek heroines. (1) The Arcadian Atalanta was the daughter of Iasius or Iasion and Clymene. At her
birth
 , she had been exposed on a hill, her father having expected a son. At first she was suckled by a she-
bear
 , and then saved by huntsmen, among whom she grew
up to be skilled with the bow, swift, and fond of the chase, like the virgin goddess Artemis. At the Calydonian boar-hunt her arrows were the first to hit the
monster
 , for which its head and hide were given her by
Meleager
 . At the funeral
games
  of Pelias, she wrestled with Peleus, and won. For a
long
  time she remained true to Artemis and rejected all suitors, but Meilanion at last gained her love by his persistent devotion. She was the
mother
  of Parthenopaeus, one of the Seven against Thebes (Apollodorus 9 ; Hyginus, Fab. 99). (2) The Boeotian Atalanta was the daughter of Schoeneus. She was famed for her running, and would only consent to marry a suitor who could outstrip her in a race, the consequence of failure being death. Hippomenes, before starting, had obtained from Aphrodite three golden apples, which he dropped at intervals, and Atalanta, stopping to pick them up, fell behind. Both were happy at the result; but forgetting to thank the goddess for the apples, they were led by her to a religious crime, and were transformed into lions by the goddess Cybele (
Ovid
 , Metam. x. 56o; Hyginus, Fab. 185). The characteristics of these two heroines (frequently confounded) point to their being secondary forms of the Arcadian Artemis.


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