Talk:Atalanta

message: According to one account of the hunt, Hylaeus and Rhaecus, two centaurs, tried to rape Atalanta, but Meleager killed them.
I read in a book called "Mythology" (I forgot who was the author but I know it was a woman in her 60's or something) that it was Atalanta who killed the centaurs and not Meleager. I want to know if any one heard of that too?--TKGB 17:58, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it must have been Edith Hamilton.  There are different versions of stories.  Yes, it is true that Atalanta did kill two centaurs who pursued her.  However, yes, Atalanta did not kill Meleager.  It was Meleager's mother that killed her son because Meleager killed her two favorite brothers. ~Rhana~{♦} talk page 19:40, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: And I quote:
Atalanta was forbiden to be wed because the oracle said the her life would go down the tubes if she did. Atalanta bore (Ares or Meleager) a son: Parthenopeus, who participated in the campaign of the Seven Against Thebes.
 
*forbiden*? *go down the tubes*? *said the her*? That is just really bad for an article about ancient Greek mythology.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.255.212.9 (talk) 00:10, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently. :)  It looks like someone vandalized the article. ~Rhana~{♦} talk page 19:38, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Who exactly is typing this?

message: I thought that there were two Atalantas, one with the boar and one with the race? Am I wrong? 69.153.27.216 03:25, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Conflation?

message: Atalanta didn't want to get married,he challenged men to compete in running games,they were loosing and she was killing them.and then melanion showed up.What the writer of this story wanted to say is that atalanta did purposely left melanion to win because she liked him. The golden apples of aphrodite mean his looks. One of the most romantic (and clever) stories of greek mythology.
:Atalanta is a girl, so who is "he?"  How you know that Atalanta purposely left Melanion (Milanion)?  Do you have these citations?  And the golden apples didn't belong to Aphrodite. ;)  They belonged to the Hesperides originally. ~Rhana~{♦} talk page 19:34, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Our articles are built up;on what reliable sources have to say about a subject. Dougweller (talk) 18:13, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: MEANING OF THIS MYTH

message: This page could really do with more info on the actual Greco-Roman Atalanta myth. As is, it just has her parentage and some info on her appearances, which is pretty irrelevant. I'll update it if I manage to find my myth encyclopedia, but if someone could give it a shot in the mean time, that would be nice. Geekboy72 (talk) 18:01, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I agree on your suggestion.  I think this article just now mainly focus more on the Greek mythological Atlanta; how she was raised and how she helped fight the Calydonian  boar.  We should also include the race; she would only marry the man who could beat her on foot in a race. ~Rhana~{♦} talk page 19:32, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Actual myth? 

message: There is a link to the Atlanta, GA article, which seems completely irrelevant.  Is Atalanta ever even known as Atlanta? 173.168.204.148 (talk) 21:35, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed this link.  Looking at the Atlanta article, it's pretty clear that Atalanta has nothing to do with Atlanta, as the city was named after the railroad that originated there. Bantam1983 (talk) 09:00, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to Atlanta 

message: Whoa, nelly.  How about we just pick the two or three most prominent mentions of Atalanta and throw out the rest of these mostly tedious descriptions?  It's practically a list down there.Tdimhcs (talk) 20:36, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Update: I think I have improved it.  If some rabid fan of Golden Sun is upset that I just deleted the description of how many Jupiter djinns it takes to summon Atalanta in the aforementioned video game, speak now or forever hold your peace.Tdimhcs (talk) 20:47, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Out of Control "Cultural Depictions" Section