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    Atalanta was uninterested in marriage, so she agreed to marry only if her suitors could outrun her in a footrace. King Schoeneus agreed, and many young men died in the attempt until Melanion came along. The goddess Aphrodite gave him three golden apples in order to slow Atalanta down. They had a son, parthenopaios, who was one of the Seven against thebes.

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    Atalanta was uninterested in marriage, so she agreed to marry only if her suitors could outrun her in a footrace. King Schoeneus agreed, and many young men died in the attempt until Melanion came along. The goddess Aphrodite gave him three golden apples in order to slow Atalanta down. They had a son, parthenopaios, who was one of the Seven against thebes.

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    Atalanta was uninterested in marriage, so she agreed to marry only if her suitors could outrun her in a footrace. King Schoeneus agreed, and many young men died in the attempt until Melanion came along. The goddess Aphrodite gave him three golden apples in order to slow Atalanta down. They had a son, parthenopaios, who was one of the Seven against thebes.

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    Footrace After the Calydonian boar hunt, Atalanta was rediscovered by her father.

    He wanted her to be wed, but Atalanta, uninterested in marriage, agreed to marry only if her suitors could outrun her in a footrace. Those who lost would be killed. King Schoeneus agreed, and many young men died in the attempt until Melanion (or Hippomenes) came along. Melanion asked the goddess Aphrodite for help, and she gave him three golden apples in order to slow Atalanta down. The apples were irresistible, so every time Atalanta got ahead of Melanion, he rolled an apple ahead of her, and she would run after it. In this way, Melanion won the footrace and

    came to marry Atalanta. Eventually they had a son Parthenopaios, who was one of the Seven against Thebes. Zeus (or Cybele, or Rhea) turned Atalanta and Melanion into lions after they made love together in one of his temples. Other accounts say that Aphrodite changed them into lions because they did not give her proper honor. She filled Melanion with lust and he stripped Atalanta in the temple. They were cursed by the priests after seeing Melanion stroking her large breasts as if they were Aphrodite's own (thus suggesting that her naked form was as beautiful as the goddess's). The belief at the time was that lions could not mate with their own species, only with

    leopards; thus Atalanta and Hippomenes would never be able to remain with one another. Apollodorus also says she wrestled and defeated Peleus at the funeral games for Pelias.

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