HISTORY OF ATALANTA

HISTORY OF ATALANTA

The complex legend includes the following events. He was allowed to die at birth by the order of his father, but was absorbed by a bear.

He took part in the hunt for the Calydonian boar; Atalanta took his first blood and took the wild boar's head and hid by the stranger Meleager who fell in love with him. When their uncle took away the survivors, the Meleager killed them and was killed by their sister, who in turn was her own mother.

HISTORY OF ATALANTA

In the most famous story popular with ancient and modern artists, Atalanta offered to marry anyone who could overcome him - but he led the people he had overcome. In one race, three of the golden apples of Hesperides, the goddess Aphrodite, were given to the Hipomen (or Milanion); When he dropped them, Atalanta stopped to pick them up and so he lost the race. Their son was Parthenopaeus, one of the Sevens, who later fought against Thebes after King Oedipus died. Atalanta and her husband had sex in a temple where the goddess Cybele (or Zeus) overcome them with a passion and became a lion at the temple.