Hello I’m Atalanta daughter of King Iasus and Clymene. When I was born my parents left me in the forest alone, because they want a boy not a girl, but a bear found me and raised me. The time pass and I went to live with the hunters, there I learn all their techniques, abilities and star loving hunting. I was best known for being the fastest mortal, my shooting skills and for my participation on male games such as Calydonian Boar Hunt and Funeral games .The two of them I won and after I won the Calydonian Boar Hunt I reconciled with my father and became a princess. Also I was one of the Argonauts and had a son named Parthenopaeus.
When I become a princess my father decided to marry me, but I don’t want to do it and do the story began… Atalanta came up with a plan that would stop her from having to marry. She would race the males that want to marry her, the one who beat her in the foot race would be the lucky man to marry her, but if she won, she could kill the man. Atalanta made the plan knowing that no one could beat her. One day a racer, Melanion fell in love with Atalanta and wanted to marry her, but he knew he couldn’t beat her so he called on Aphrodite, the love goddess, for assistance. Aphrodite provided Melanion with three golden apples to cheat Atalanta. During the race, whenever Atalanta would get ahead of Melanion, he would roll one of the golden apples forward, forcing Atalanta for her curiosity to stop and pick the apple up. Atalanta's frequent stops gave Melanion the advantage he needed and he won the race and Atalanta has to marry him. Once married, it seems that Atalanta could not contain her inhibitions any longer, but one day she allowed Melanion to seduce her in the temple of Zeus. Zeus was so angered that he turned them into lions. This was a fitting punishment because lions can’t mate with each other.
Nataly Torres
