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Hippomenes is the sneaky dude who manages to beat Atalanta in a foot race by tossing golden apples on the ground. No, she doesn't trip on them or something; for some reason, she can't help but stop and pick them up. (Which is weird, but whatever.)
The Greek mythological story of the huntress Atalanta tells a tale of her desire to remain a virgin and how the only way that she would marry is if her suitors could best her in a footrace. However, Atalanta was gifted to run and no man could beat her until Hippomenes, with Aphrodite’s help, bested her in a deadly race.
After a warning from an oracle about getting married, she declared that whoever wanted to marry her was to beat her in a footrace (herself being a notoriously swift runner), and that those who should try and lose would be punished by instant death.
16 lip 2019 · So she decided that all her suitors must beat her in a footrace; those who lost, she would kill. Then she fell in love at first sight with Hippomenes, who was also known as Melanion. Hippomenes, fearing that he would not be able to beat her in the race, went to Aphrodite for help.
7 lip 2023 · Atalanta married a young man from Boeotia named Hippomenes (or Melanion, depending on the source). She had announced that she would only marry the man who could beat her in a footrace. But Atalanta easily bested all of her suitors.
In one race Hippomenes (or Milanion) was given three of the golden apples of the Hesperides by the goddess Aphrodite; when he dropped them, Atalanta stopped to pick them up and so lost the race. Their son was Parthenopaeus, who later was one of the Seven who fought…
17 lut 2020 · In Greek mythology, Hippomenes was famed for being the husband of the heroine Atalanta; Hippomenes having won the hand in marriage of Atalanta following a running race. Hippomenes was said to be the son of King Megareus of Onchestus and a woman named Merope.
