page_title: Atalanta
section_title: Wrestling
hierarchical_section_title: Atalanta / Wrestling
caption_attribution_description: Chalcidian black-figured hydria. Side A: wrestling of Peleus and Atalanta for the funerary games of king Pelias. In background, the prize of the duel: the skin and the head of the Calydonian boar. Side B: Zeus darting its lightning on Typhon. Names inscriptions are written in the alphabet of Chalcis in Euboea. Side A
context_page_description: Atalanta is a character in Greek mythology. She is described as a virgin huntress unwilling to marry, and loved by the hero Meleager.
  According to the Bibliotheca of pseudo-Apollodorus, Atalanta was the daughter of Iasus, son of Lycurgus, and Clymene, daughter of Minyas. She is also mentioned as the daughter of Mainalos or Schoeneus, of a Boeotian, or of an Arcadian princess. The Bibliotheca is the only source which gives an account of Atalanta's birth and upbringing. Prince Iasus wanted a son; when Atalanta was born, he left her on a mountaintop to die. Some stories say that a she-bear suckled and cared for Atalanta until hunters found and raised her, and she learned to fight and hunt as a bear would. She was later reunited with her father.
  Having grown up in the wilderness, Atalanta became a fierce hunter and was always happy. She took an oath of virginity to the goddess Artemis, and slew two centaurs, Hylaeus and Rhoecus, who attempted to rape her.
context_section_description: The Bibliotheca also says she wrestled and defeated Peleus at the funeral games for Pelias. The subject is popular in ancient Greek vase painting.
caption: Peleus and Atalanta wrestling, black-figured hydria, c. 550 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Inv. 596).
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