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Her father (Iasus or Schoeneus) wanted a son, so when Atalanta was born, he exposed her on a mountaintop. Artemis sent a female bear to suckle her and she was eventually raised by a group of hunters.
Atalanta participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar and drew first blood, through Meleager killed it. Since she had done the first injury, Meleager gave her the hide. According to one account of the hunt, Hylaeus and Rhaecus, two centaurs, tried to rape Atalanta. Meleager killed them. Also during the hunt, Eurypylus insulted her. He was killed by Meleager.
After Atalanta participated in the hunt and received the pelt, her father, Iasus or Schoeneus, claimed her as his offspring and wanted her to get married.
She was a very beautiful maiden who did not particularly want to get married. In order to get her a husband, her father made a deal with Atalanta that she would marry anybody who could beat her in a foot race. Atalanta happily took the deal, as she was extremely fleet of foot.
She outran many, many suitors. The one that finally became her husband accomplished this through brain, not speed. Hippomenes (also known as Melanion) knew that he could not win a fair race with Atalanta, so he prayed to AphroditeAphrodite (φροδτη, "risen from sea-foam") is the Greek goddess of love and beauty. Worship The epithet Aphrodite Acidalia was occasionally added to her name, after the spring she used to bathe in, located in Boeotia ( Virgil for help. She gave him three golden apples and told him to drop them one at a time to distract Atalanta. Sure enough, she quit running long enough to get each golden apple. It took all three apples and all of his speed, but Hippomenes was finally successful, winning the race and Atalanta's hand.
In some versions of the quest for the Golden FleeceFor the order of chivalry, see Order of the Golden Fleece. In Greek mythology, the ram with the Golden Fleece Okros Satsmisi in Georgian) was given to Nephele of Thessaly by Hermes for her to transport her children, Helle and Phrixus, away from Ino. The r, Atalanta was one of the ArgonautsIn Greek mythology, the Argonauts were a band of heroes who, in the years before the Trojan War, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest for the Golden Fleece. They sailed the ship the Argo hence their name, which literally means "Sailors of the Argo"., and the only female among them. Other authors claim JasonThis article is about the Greek mythological hero Jason. For other Jasons, see Jason (disambiguation). Gustave Moreau's Jason Jason "" in Greek, is a hero of Greek mythology. His father was Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcus. His real name was Diomedes an wouldn't allow Atalanta on the ship because she was a woman. Others claim she was an Argonaut and was injured in the battle at ColchisColchis ( Georgian Kolkheti , or Aea-Colchis was, in ancient times, a district of Asia Minor, at the eastern extremity of the Black Sea, bounded on the north by the Caucasus. The name of Colchis first appears in Aeschylus and Pindar. It was inhabited by a and was healed by MedeaIn Greek mythology Medea was the daughter of King Aeetes (Georgian Ayeti of Colchis (Georgian Kolkheti now a territory of modern Georgia) and niece of Circe, and later wife to Jason. In Greek eyes she was a witch or sorceress; to an archaeologist her powe.
Atalanta and Hippomenes (or AresAries (Latin for "ram"), the constellation and Zodiac sign is unrelated to Ares, the Greek god of war described below. Ares Galaxy, the peer-to-peer file sharing program, is also unrelated to Ares. The Amateur Radio Emergency Service is also unrelated to or Meleager) were the parents of ParthenopeusIn Greek mythology, Parthenopeus ("son of a pierced maidenhead", also Parthenopaeus was one of the Seven Against Thebes and the son of Atalanta and Hippomenes (or Ares or Meleager). Virgil VI, 480. Greek mythology., who participated in the campaign of the Seven Against Thebes.
Atalanta and Hippomenes were turned into lions by Zeus or Cybele after having sex in one of his/her temples.
The episode relating to the Calydonian boar hunt was reprised by Swinburne in his verse tragedy Atalanta in Calydon .
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