Atalante

In the Greek Mythology, Atalante (in Greek old Άταλάντη / Atalántê ) is a heroin present in two different traditions.

  1. In the version Arcadie, it is not the girl of Iasos, king of the Peloponnese, wire of Lycurgue, and Clymène, girl of Minyas. As Iasos did not want a girl, it was abandoned with the birth, and collected by a ourse in the forest of the Pélion. Hunters finally found it and raised it; it became a frightening huntress, being distinguished in particular with hunting from the Sanglier from Calydon. It made, like Artémis, wish of virginity. Thus perished under its arrows two Centaure S, Hyléos and Rhoécos, which tried to misuse it. It seems that she married Méléagre however. It was the single woman to belong to the Argonautes to with dimensions of Jason.

  2. In the version Béotie, it is not the girl of Schoenée, wire of Athamas. His/her father wishing to marry it, it wanted to take for husband only that which could beat it with the race; those which would fail would be put at death. Many applicants died thus, until Hippomène presents, which helped of Aphrodite, dropped three gold apples given by the goddess in her race; curious, the young girl stopped to collect them, and was thus preceded on arrival. But thereafter, the lovers being itself étreints in the temple of Déméter, they were changed into a couple of lions, attaches to the tank of the goddess.

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