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  2. Atalanta - Wikipedia

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    Atalanta (/ ˌ æ t ə ˈ l æ n t ə /; Ancient Greek: Ἀταλάντη, romanized: Atalántē, lit. 'equal in weight') is a heroine in Greek mythology. There are two versions of the huntress Atalanta: one from Arcadia, [1] whose parents were Iasus and Clymene [2] [3] and who is primarily known from the tales of the Calydonian boar hunt and the Argonauts; [4] and the other from Boeotia, who ...

  3. Atalanta (opera) - Wikipedia

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    Atalanta (HWV 35) is a pastoral opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel composed in 1736. It is based upon the mythological female athlete, Atalanta , the libretto (which is in Italian) being derived from the book La Caccia in Etolia by Belisario Valeriani.

  4. Felisberto Hernández - Wikipedia

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    Villaür, Atalanta. Narrativa completa (2015). Buenos Aires, El Cuenco de Plata. Felisberto Hernández. Narraciones (2015). La Habana, Casa de las Américas. Obra incompleta (2015). Montevideo, Ediciones del Caballo Perdido/Ediciones Cruz del Sur. Narrativa reunida (2015). Montevideo, Alfaguara.

  5. Golden apple - Wikipedia

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    A huntress named Atalanta who raced against a suitor named Melanion, also known as Hippomenes. Melanion used golden apples to distract Atalanta so that he could win the race. Though abandoned by her father as an infant, Atalanta became a skilled hunter and received acclaim for her role in the hunt for the Calydonian boar.

  6. Hippomenes - Wikipedia

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    The name Hippomenes may also refer to the father of Leimone. Atalanta and Hippomenes, Guido Reni, c. 1622–25. In Greek mythology, Hippomenes (/ h ɪ ˈ p ɒ m ɪ n iː z /; Ancient Greek: Ἱππομένης), also known as Melanion (/ m ə ˈ l æ n i ə n /; Μελανίων or Μειλανίων), [1] was a son of the Arcadian Amphidamas [2] or of King Megareus of Onchestus [3] and the ...

  7. Calydonian boar hunt - Wikipedia

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    Tondo of a Laconian black-figure cup by the Naucratis Painter, c. 555 BCE (). Since the Calydonian boar hunt drew together numerous heroes [5] —among whom were many who were venerated as progenitors of their local ruling houses among tribal groups of Hellenes into Classical times—it offered a natural subject in classical art, for it was redolent with the web of myth that gathered around ...

  8. Atalanta (magazine) - Wikipedia

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    Named after the Greek mythological heroine Atalanta, the magazine was founded by L. T. Meade as a successor to Every Girl's Magazine. [1] It appeared monthly from January 1887 [2] at six pence per issue.

  9. Algernon Charles Swinburne - Wikipedia

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    Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist and critic. He wrote many plays - all tragedies - and collections of poetry such as Poems and Ballads, and contributed to the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.