Many men sought her hand in marriage so she challenged them to a foot race. Atalanta was one of the few female greek heroes and she was a great huntress. She later took part in the voyage of the argonauts and.
Atalanta swore to defend her virginity and when two centaurs burst into her grove she slew them with arrows. She was exposed by her father at birth in the wilds but was suckled by a she bear and afterwards found and raised by hunters. In greek mythology atalanta was an arcadian heroine a huntress and a favourite of the goddess artemis.
The king of the greek region calydon failed to honor artemis so the goddess got angry and summoned a. The first major event in greek mythology where atalanta appears is the calydonian boar hunt. Indeed such was the fame of atalanta that different regions of ancient greece would claim the heroine as their own and in particular both arcadia and.
It was said though that atalanta was a match for any mortal born heroes of greek mythology. Atalanta was a rare thing in greek mythology a heroine in a world where heroes were the norm. Her complex legend includes the following incidents.
Traditionally she was the daughter of schoeneus of boeotia or of iasus and clymene of arcadia. Atalanta in greek mythology a renowned and swift footed huntress probably a parallel and less important form of the goddess artemis. She is also mentioned as the daughter of mainalos or schoeneus according.
According to the bibliotheca of pseudo apollodorus atalanta was the daughter of iasus son of lycurgus and clymene daughter of minyas. Atalanta ˌ æ t ə ˈ l æ n t ə.