:the name hippomenes may also refer to the father of leimone.  in greek mythology, hippomenes (), also known as melanion (ÎÎµÎ»Î±Î½Î¯ÏÎ½, also meilanion ÎÎµÎ¹Î»Î±Î½Î¯ÏÎ½),"melanion" is used by pseudo-apollodorus (bibliotheca 3. 9. 2), pausanias (3. 12. 9); "meilanion" occurs at xenophon (on hunting 1. 2& 7); "hippomenes" occurs in theocritus (idyll 3. 40), euripides (as noted in the bibliotheca l. c.; euripides' work in question hasn't survived) and in most roman authors. ovid in ars amatoria (2. 188) and propertius (1. 1. 9) use milanion, apparently the latin spelling for "meilanion". it may have been that melanion, son of amphidamas, and hippomenes, son of megareus, were two distinct figures appearing in the same role interchangeably. was a son of the arcadian amphidamaspseudo-apollodorus, bibliotheca, 3. 9. 2 or of megareus of onchestusovid, metamorphoses, 10. 605 and the husband of atalanta. he was known to have been one of the disciples of cheiron, and to have surpassed other ones in his eagerness to undertake hard challenges.xenophon, on hunting 1. 2 & 7 inscriptions mention him as one of the calydonian hunters.corpus inscriptionum graecarum, 8139, 8185a == overview == the main myth of hippomenes' courtship of atalanta, narrated by pseudo-apollodorus, ovid,metamorphoses 10. 560 - 707 servius,servius on aeneid, 3. 113 and hyginushyginus, fabulae, 185 was as follows. hippomenes fell in love with atalanta, the virgin huntress who strongly disliked the idea of getting married. disturbed by men admiring her beauty as she ran through the forest, 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. another version (followed by hyginus) was that her father wanted her to be married, but she did not. she agreed to running races against her suitors because she thought she would never lose. atalanta raced all her suitors and outran all but hippomenes, who defeated her by cunning, not speed. hippomenes knew that he could not win a fair race with atalanta, so he prayed to aphrodite for help (the goddess, in the meantime, disliked atalanta's neglect of love). aphrodite gave him three golden apples&nbsp;â which came from her sacred apple-tree in tamasus, cyprus, according to ovid,met. 10. 644 or from the garden of the hesperides according to servius&nbsp;â and told him to drop them one at a time to distract atalanta. after each of the first two a
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