Atalanta
mythological figure · 4 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages
maid of Maenalus · the huntress
in the texts
Phoenissae
Legendary huntress, mother of the Argive captain Parthenopaeus.
That is Parthenopaeus, Atalanta’s son.
and he will never go back alive to his mother with her lovely bow, the maid of Maenalus.
Atalanta slaying the Aetolian boar with an arrow shot from far.
Stromata
Mythic huntress celebrated by poets for her swiftness.
And the rest of the poets sing of Atalanta's swiftness in the hunt, and of the tender love of Anticleia, and of Alcestis' love of her husband, and of the good courage of Macaria and of the Hyacinthides.
Suppliants
Legendary huntress named as the mother of Parthenopaeus.
Next behold the huntress Atalanta’s son, Parthenopaeus, a youth of peerless beauty;