Atalanta | |
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Princess of Arcadia | |
Member of the Argonauts | |
![]() Atalanta. Marble, 1703–1705. Copy by Pierre Lepautre of a Roman work after a Hellenistic original. Commissioned for the decoration of Marly Park, transferred in 1798 to the Tuileries Gardens. © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons | |
Abode | Arcadia |
Symbols | Golden apple, bear, lion |
Personal information | |
Parents | |
Consort | Meleager Ares (possibly) Hippomenes (or Melanion) |
Offspring | Parthenopaeus |
Atalanta (/ˌætəˈlæntə/; Greek: Ἀταλάντη, translit. Atalántē, lit. "equal in weight") is a heroine in Greek mythology.
There are two versions of the huntress Atalanta: one from Arcadia,[1] whose parents were Iasus and Clymene[2][3] and who is primarily known from the tales of the Calydonian boar hunt and the Argonauts;[4] and the other from Boeotia, who is the daughter of King Schoeneus[5][6] and is primarily noted for her skill in the footrace.[5] In both versions, Atalanta was a local figure allied to the goddess Artemis;[7] in such oral traditions, minor characters were often assigned different names, resulting in minor regional variations.[8]
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