Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
Liv Albert
Independent, Industrious, Badass & Brave, the Heroine of Greek Myth, Arcadian Atalanta
38 minutes Posted Mar 22, 2022 at 7:00 am.
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Atalanta: the heroine of ancient Greece. Or, was it heroines? There are two Atalantas, sometimes conflated into one, other times separate. One fought the Calydonian boar, wrestled Peleus, and generally kicked ass. The other lost a foot race, distracted by a golden apple.

CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

Sources: Theoi.com entry on Atalanta, including Aelian, Apollodorus, Apollonios, and others; Early Greek Myths by Timothy Gantz.

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