1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
ATALANTA, in Greek legend, the name of two Greek heroines, (i) The Arcadian Atalanta was the daughter of lasius or lasion and Clymene. At her birth, she had been exposed on a hill, her father having expected a son. At first she was suckled by a she-bear, and then saved by huntsmen, among whom she grew ATARGATIS— ATCHISON up in be skilled with the bow, swift, and fond of the thane, liL.r the virgin goddess Artemis. At the Calydonian boar-hunt her arrow* were the first in hit ihr monster, for which its head and hide …
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