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{{Short description|Greek mythological character}}
{{distinguish|Atlanta}}
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{{Infobox deity
| type = Greek
| name = Atalanta
| deity_of = Princess of [[Arcadia (utopia)|Arcadia]]
| member_of = the [[Argonauts]]
| image = File:Atalanta Lekythos, 500-490 BC, Greek, Attic, attributed to Douris, ceramic - Cleveland Museum of Art - DSC08212.JPG
| caption= Atalanta surrounded by three [[Erotes]], [[Attica|Attic]] white-ground [[lekythos]], c. 500&ndash;470 BC<ref>[[Cleveland Museum of Art]], [https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1966.114 1966.114].</ref>
| abode = [[Arcadia (regional unit)|Arcadia]]
| consort = [[Meleager]]<BR>[[Ares]] {{small|(possibly)}}<BR>[[Hippomenes]] {{Small|(or [[Melanion]])}}
| mother = [[Clymene (mythology)|Clymene]]
| father=[[Iasus]] or [[Schoeneus]]
| offspring = [[Parthenopaeus]]
| symbols=[[Golden apple]], bear, lion
}}

'''Atalanta''' ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|æ|t|ə|ˈ|l|æ|n|t|ə}}; {{langx|grc|Ἀταλάντη|Atalántē|equal in weight}}) is a heroine in [[Greek mythology]].

There are two versions of the huntress Atalanta: one from [[Arcadia (region)|Arcadia]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Aelian: Various Histories. Book XIII, Ch. 1|url=http://penelope.uchicago.edu/aelian/varhist13.html |access-date=2021-03-08|publisher=penelope.uchicago.edu}}</ref> whose parents were [[Iasus]] and [[Clymene (mythology)|Clymene]]<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=CALLIMACHUS, HYMNS 1-3 - Theoi Classical Texts Library, HYMN 3|url=https://www.theoi.com/Text/CallimachusHymns1.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-08|website=www.theoi.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061120121412/http://www.theoi.com/Text/CallimachusHymns1.html |archive-date=2006-11-20 }}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=APOLLODORUS, THE LIBRARY BOOK 3.9.2 - Theoi Classical Texts Library|url=https://www.theoi.com/Text/Apollodorus3.html#9|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-08|website=www.theoi.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061120144958/http://www.theoi.com/Text/Apollodorus3.html |archive-date=2006-11-20 }}</ref> and who is primarily known from the tales of the [[Calydonian boar hunt]] and the [[Argonauts]];<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.9.16&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Atalanta 1.9.16]</ref> and the other from [[Boeotia]], who is the daughter of King [[Schoeneus]]<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=HESIOD, CATALOGUES OF WOMEN FRAGMENTS, FRAGMENT 14 - Theoi Classical Texts Library|url=https://www.theoi.com/Text/HesiodCatalogues.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-08|website=www.theoi.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061120141111/http://www.theoi.com/Text/HesiodCatalogues.html |archive-date=2006-11-20 }}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite web|title=Hyginus, Fabulae. 173-174 and 185|url=https://topostext.org/work/206|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-08|website=topostext.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180826113645/https://topostext.org/work/206 |archive-date=2018-08-26 }}</ref><ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.9.16&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Atalanta 1.9.16]</ref> and is primarily noted for her skill in the footrace.<ref name=":3" /> In both versions, Atalanta was a local figure allied to the goddess [[Artemis]];<ref name=Boardman1983>{{cite journal |last1=Boardman |first1=John |title=Atalanta |journal=Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies |date=1983 |volume=10 |pages=3–19 |doi=10.2307/4104327 |jstor=4104327 }}</ref> in such oral traditions, minor characters were often assigned different names, resulting in minor regional variations.<ref name="Howell & Howell 1989">{{cite journal |last1=Howell |first1=Reet A. |last2=Howell |first2=Maxwell L. |title=The Atalanta Legend in Art and Literature |journal=Journal of Sport History |date=1989 |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=127–139 |jstor=43609443 }}</ref>

== Mythology ==
===Early life===
[[File:Atalanta Lepautre Louvre MR1804.jpg|thumb|Atalanta. Marble, 1703–1705. Copy by Pierre Lepautre of a Roman work after a Hellenistic original.]]
At birth, Atalanta was taken to [[Mount Parthenion]] to be [[Infant exposure|exposed]] because her father had desired a son.<ref name=":2" /> A she-bear—one of the symbols of Artemis—whose cubs had been recently killed by hunters came upon Atalanta and nursed her until those same hunters discovered her and raised her themselves in the mountains.<ref name=":0" /> Atalanta then grew up to be a swift-footed virgin who eschewed men and devoted herself to the huntress Artemis.<ref name=":2" />

Atalanta modelled herself after Artemis, wearing a simple sleeveless [[tunic]] that reached her knees and living in the [[wilderness]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> While living in the wild, Atalanta slew two [[centaurs]] with her bow and arrows, Rhoecus and Hylaios, after her beauty caught their attention and they attempted to rape her.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />

=== The voyage of the Argonauts ===
[[File:Atalanta Peleus Staatliche Antikensammlungen 596.jpg|thumb|274x274px|[[Black-figure pottery]] showing a wrestling match between [[Peleus]] and Atalanta during the funerary games of King [[Pelias]]. In the background, the prize of the duel: the skin and the head of the Calydonian boar.]]
Atalanta is only occasionally mentioned in the legend of the Argonauts;<ref name="Howell & Howell 1989"/><ref name=":8">{{Cite journal|last=Barringer|first=Judith M.|date=1996|title=Atalanta as Model: The Hunter and the Hunted|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25011031|journal=Classical Antiquity|volume=15|issue=1|pages=48–76|doi=10.2307/25011031|jstor=25011031|issn=0278-6656|url-access=subscription}}</ref> however, her participation is noted in [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Pseudo-Apollodorus]]'s account, which says that during the search for the [[Golden Fleece]], Atalanta, who was invited and invoked the protection of Artemis, sailed with the Argonauts as the only woman among them.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Apollodorus, Library, book 1, chapter 9, section 16|url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022:text=Library:book=1:chapter=9:section=16|access-date=2021-03-09|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref> In [[Diodorus Siculus]]'s account, Atalanta is not only noted to have sailed with the Argonauts but to have fought alongside them at the battle in [[Colchis]], where she, [[Jason]], [[Laertes (father of Odysseus)|Laertes]], and the [[Thespius|sons of Thesipae]] were wounded and later healed by [[Medea]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=DIODORUS SICULUS, LIBRARY OF HISTORY BOOK 4.48.5 - Theoi Classical Texts Library|url=https://www.theoi.com/Text/DiodorusSiculus4C.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-08|website=www.theoi.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061120145847/http://www.theoi.com/Text/DiodorusSiculus4C.html |archive-date=2006-11-20 }}</ref> In the account of [[Apollonius of Rhodes]], Jason prevents Atalanta from joining not because she lacks skill but because as a woman she has the potential to cause strife among men on the ship.<ref>{{Cite web|title=APOLLONIUS RHODIUS, ARGONAUTICA BOOK 1.768 - Theoi Classical Texts Library|url=https://www.theoi.com/Text/ApolloniusRhodius1.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-08|website=www.theoi.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061120121906/http://www.theoi.com/Text/ApolloniusRhodius1.html |archive-date=2006-11-20 }}</ref> 

After the death of King [[Pelias]] in [[Iolcus]], [[funeral games]] were held in which Atalanta defeated [[Peleus]] in a wrestling match.<ref name=":2" /> This match became a popular subject in Greek art.<ref name=Boardman1983/>

=== The Calydonian boar hunt ===
[[File:Wall painting - Meleagros and Atalanta - Pompeii (VI 9 3) - Napoli MAN 8980.jpg|thumb|Fresco depicting Atalanta and [[Meleager]] resting after successfully hunting the [[Calydonian boar]], [[Pompeii]]]]
In an annual celebration, [[Oeneus|King Oeneus]] of [[Calydon]] had forgotten to honour Artemis with a sacrifice in his rites to the gods.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=APOLLODORUS, THE LIBRARY BOOK 1.8.2-3, Theoi Classical Texts Library |url=https://www.theoi.com/Text/Apollodorus1.html#8 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061120121407/http://www.theoi.com/Text/Apollodorus1.html |archive-date=2006-11-20 |access-date=2021-03-08 |website=www.theoi.com}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> In anger, she sent the [[Calydonian Boar|Calydonian boar]], a monstrous [[wild boar]] that ravaged the land, cattle, and people, and prevented the crops from being sown.<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=PHILOSTRATUS THE YOUNGER, IMAGINES 13 - Theoi Classical Texts Library|url=https://www.theoi.com/Text/PhilostratusYounger2.html#15|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-08|website=www.theoi.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705175432/http://www.theoi.com/Text/PhilostratusYounger2.html |archive-date=2008-07-05 }}</ref> Atalanta was called upon to join [[Meleager]], [[Theseus]], [[Castor and Pollux|Pollux]], [[Telamon]], Peleus, and all those who were part of the Argonaut expedition on the hunt for the boar.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" /> Many of the men were angry that a woman was joining them, but Meleager, though having a family of his own, convinced them otherwise as he desired to father a child with Atalanta after hearing of her expertise in archery and beauty while hunting.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=OVID, METAMORPHOSES 8.300 - Theoi Classical Texts Library|url=https://www.theoi.com/Text/OvidMetamorphoses8.html#3|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-08|website=www.theoi.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930182632/http://www.theoi.com/Text/OvidMetamorphoses8.html |archive-date=2007-09-30 }}</ref>

During the hunt [[Hylas|Hyleus]] and [[Ancaeus (son of Lycurgus)|Ancaeus]] were killed, Peleus accidentally killed a fellow hunter and others were wounded. Atalanta drew first blood on the boar with her bow.<ref name=":4" /> After this feat, killing the boar became a collective effort as, after the initial blow, [[Amphiaraus]] shot the boar's eye and Meleager ended its life.<ref name=":4" /> Meleager awarded the hide to Atalanta for her valor,<ref name=":5" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Pausanias, Description of Greece, Arcadia, chapter 45, section 2|url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+8.45.2&fromdoc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160|access-date=2021-03-08|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref> but it was taken away by Meleager's uncles, [[Plexippus]] and [[Toxeus]], who considered it dishonorable for a woman to hold such a prize.<ref name=":4" /> In response, Meleager killed his uncles.<ref name=":4" /> [[Althaea (mythology)|Althaea]], Meleager's mother, became grief-stricken after hearing of her brothers’ deaths and threw the log that was tied to her son's life into a fire, killing him.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" />

===Footrace===
According to [[Ovid]], before her adventures, Atalanta had consulted an [[oracle]] who prophesied that marriage would be her undoing. As a result, she chose to live in the wilderness.<ref name=":9">{{Cite web|title=OVID, METAMORPHOSES 10.560-681 - Theoi Classical Texts Library|url=https://www.theoi.com/Text/OvidMetamorphoses10.html#8|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-08|website=www.theoi.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930185038/http://www.theoi.com/Text/OvidMetamorphoses10.html |archive-date=2007-09-30 }}</ref> After the Calydonian boar hunt, Atalanta was discovered by her father, who accepted her as his daughter and began to arrange a marriage for her.<ref name=":2" /> To prevent this, she agreed to marry only if a suitor could outrun her in a [[footrace]], which swift-footed Atalanta knew was impossible.<ref name=":3" />{{refn|group=note|name=first|Hyginus's Fabulae states that Atalanta's father, King Schoeneus, was the one who arranged for the footrace, as a result of his daughter’s choice to stay a virgin.<ref name=":5" />}} If the suitor was unsuccessful, he would be killed.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":5" /> Her father agreed to the terms, and many suitors died in the attempt until [[Hippomenes]],<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":9" />{{Refn|group=note|Generally thus named in antiquity, but also known as Melanion.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pausanias, Description of Greece, Elis 1, chapter 19, section 2|url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+5.+19.+2&fromdoc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160|access-date=2021-03-13|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu.}}</ref><ref name=":2" />}} who fell in love with Atalanta at first sight, appealed for divine help.<ref name=":2" /> Hippomenes knew he could not best Atalanta even with the advantage of a head start, so he prayed to the goddess [[Aphrodite]] for assistance.<ref name=":3" /> Aphrodite, who felt spurned because Atalanta was a devotee of Artemis and rejected love, gave Hippomenes three irresistible [[golden apple]]s.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":9" /> As the race began, Atalanta, wearing armour and carrying weapons, quickly passed Hippomenes, but she was diverted off the path when he tossed an apple for her to retrieve;<ref name=":5" /> each time Atalanta caught up with Hippomenes, he would toss another apple,<ref name=":9" /> ultimately winning the race and Atalanta herself.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":2" />

Atalanta bore a son, [[Parthenopeus|Parthenopaios]] (who may have been fathered by Meleager or [[Ares]]), who became one of the [[Seven against Thebes]].<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=AESCHYLUS, SEVEN AGAINST THEBES, 526 - Theoi Classical Texts Library|url=https://www.theoi.com/Text/AeschylusSeven.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-08|website=www.theoi.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061120140953/http://www.theoi.com/Text/AeschylusSeven.html |archive-date=2006-11-20 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=DIODORUS SICULUS, LIBRARY OF HISTORY BOOK 4.65-7 - Theoi Classical Texts Library|url=https://www.theoi.com/Text/DiodorusSiculus4D.html#11|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-08|website=www.theoi.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061120145851/http://www.theoi.com/Text/DiodorusSiculus4D.html |archive-date=2006-11-20 }}</ref>

=== Metamorphosis into lions ===
After the footrace, Hippomenes forgot to thank Aphrodite for her aid, and while the couple were out hunting, the goddess afflicted them with such sexual passion that they had sex in a sanctuary belonging to either [[Zeus]]<ref name=":5" /> or [[Rhea (mythology)|Rhea]].<ref name=":9" /> They were turned into lions for their sacrilege by either Artemis (angered by Atalanta losing her [[virginity]]), the goddess [[Cybele]], or Zeus himself.<ref name=":2" /> The belief at the time was that lions could not mate with their own species, only with [[leopard]]s; therefore Atalanta and Hippomenes would never be able to have "intercourse of love".<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":8" />

== Modern ==
[[File:Archäologisches Museum Thessaloniki (Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Θεσσαλονίκης) (47779609262).jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|Meleager and Atalanta hunt the boar on a Roman sarcophagus, 2nd century AD, from [[Salonica]].]]

The Italian [[Association football|football]] club [[Atalanta B.C.|Atalanta]], based in [[Bergamo]], took its name from the heroine, and the club's crest depicts her face.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://thesefootballtimes.co/2020/03/09/behind-the-badge-copa90-the-story-of-atalantas-logo/ |title=Behind the badge: the story of Atalanta's logo |date=9 March 2020 |last=Munday |first=Billy |website=thesefootballtimes.co |access-date=22 December 2020}}</ref>

The English football club [[Huddersfield Atalanta Ladies F.C.]] was also named after the heroine.

A version of Atalanta's story appears in the multimedia children's entertainment project ''[[Free to Be... You and Me]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Powers |first=Janis |date=26 October 2013 |orig-year=26 August 2013 |title=Atalanta and the No-Choice Generation |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/atalanta-and-the-no-choice-generation_b_3814327 |department=The Blog |work=[[HuffPost]] |access-date=25 May 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The History of ''Free to Be You and Me'': As Remembered by Marlo Thomas, Carole Hart, Stephen Lawrence and Letty Cottin Pogrebin |url=https://www.freetobefoundation.com/interview1 |publisher=The Free to Be Foundation |access-date=25 May 2022}}</ref> She is also the focus of the 2017 historical novel ''For the Winner'', by the British Classicist and author [[Emily Hauser]], which retells the story of Atalanta's voyage with the Argonauts.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Penguin Books |date=2017 |title=Emily Hauser: For the Winner |url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/430812/for-the-winner-by-emily-hauser/9781784160678 |access-date=14 November 2022 |publisher=Penguin Books}}</ref>

In the [[light novel]] ''[[Fate/Apocrypha]]'', Atalanta is summoned as the Archer-class Servant of the Red faction.

Olympic-medal-winning [[javelin]] thrower [[Fatima Whitbread]] said that she took up an interest in [[track and field]] events after being inspired by the myth of Atalanta, "whom no man could outrun except by cheating, and whose javelin killed a terrible monster."<ref name="FWAUTO">{{cite book |last1=Whitbread |first1=Fatima |last2=Blue |first2=Adrianne |title=Fatima: The Autobiography of Fatima Whitbread |publisher=Pelham |location=London |year=1988 |isbn=978-0-7207-1856-0 }}</ref>

A version of Atalanta's story is told in ''Atalanta'' by [[Jennifer Saint]] (2023). This modern feminist retelling claims Atalanta as the daughter of Iasus and follows both the tales of the Argonauts and the Calydonian boar hunt and the tales of her skill in the footrace.<ref>Saint, Jennifer 2023, ''Atalanta'', Wildfire, London. </ref>

The [[European Union]] [[Piracy#Anti-piracy_measures|anti-piracy]] mission in [[Somalia]] is named "[[Operation Atalanta]]" in reference to the Greek heroine.<ref>{{cite web |title=OPERATION ATALANTA, THE EUROPEAN UNION NAVAL FORCE FOR SOMALIA TAKES STOCK AFTER 13 YEARS OPERATING |url=https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/operation-atalanta-european-union-naval-force-somalia-takes-stock-after-13-years-operating_und_en |website=European External Action Service |access-date=8 July 2024 |date=10 September 2021 |quote=The EU launched Operation Atalanta, named after the mythological Greek huntress, in December 2008 as a collective initiative of its Member States...}}</ref>

== Gallery ==
<gallery mode="packed">
File:Jan Fyt and Pieter Thijs - Atalanta and Meleager Hunt the Calydonian Boar.jpg|Oil painting of Atalanta and Meleager hunting the Calydonian boar ([[Jan Fyt]], 1648). The Ringling, Bequest of John Ringling, 1936.
File:Meleager-Béierkapp--w.jpg|''Meleager presenting Atalante the head of the Calydonian Boar in'' 16th century alabaster, [[Bode Museum]]
File:Jan Wildens - Landscape with Hunt of Meleager and Atalanta.jpg|Landscape painting of the hunt. [[Jan Wildens]], 17th century.
File:Giulio Romano - Meleager et Atalanta.jpg|''Meleager et Atalanta'', from a drawing by [[Giulio Romano (painter)|Giulio Romano]], engraved by François Louis Lonsing. Atalanta is at far left with bow; Meleager is right of her, spearing the Calydonian boar (1773).
File:M. Maurice Stora - Atalanta and Meleager Present the Head of the Caledonian Boar at the Temple of Artemis - Google Art Project.jpg|''Meleager Presenting the Head of the Calydonian Boar to Atalanta at the Temple of Artemis''. M. Maurice Stora (1530–1535).
File:Palumba hunt.jpg|A''talanta and Meleager hunting the Calydonian boar''. Woodcut by [[Giovanni Battista Palumba]], print in the [[British Museum]].
File:Jacob Jordaens - Meleager and Atalanta, 1620-1650.jpg|''Meleager and Atalante''. [[Jacob Jordaens]] (1620–1650), [[Museo del Prado|Museo Nacional del Prado]].
File:Nicolas Colombel 002.jpg|''The Race between Atalanta and Hippomenes''. [[Nicolas Colombel]] (1644–1717), [[Liechtenstein Museum]], Vienna.
File:La Course d'Hippomène et d'Atalante - Noël Hallé - Musée du Louvre Peintures INV 5270 ; B 645.jpg|Oil painting depicting the footrace between Hippomenes and Atalanta by [[Noël Hallé]], housed in the [[Louvre|Louvre Museum]]
File:Atalanta en Hippomenes in leeuwen veranderd Metamorfosen van Ovidius (serietitel), RP-P-OB-15.962.jpg|A woodcut engraving of the transformation of Atalanta and Hippomenes. Rijksmuseum
</gallery>

== Explanatory notes ==
{{Reflist|group=note}}

== Citations ==
{{Reflist}}

== General and cited sources ==
* Aelian: [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/aelian/varhist13.html ''Various Histories. Book XIII'']. Translated by Thomas Stanley,
* Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, Suppliants, ''Seven Against Thebes''. Translation by Vellacott, P. The Penguin Classics. London. Penguin Books
* Apollodorus, ''The Library of Greek Mythology''. Translation by Aldrich, Keith. Lawrence, Kansas: Coronado Press, 1975.
* Apollodorus, ''The Library''. English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.
* Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica''. Translation by Rieu, E. V. The Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books.
* {{cite journal |last1=Barringer |first1=Judith M. |title=Atalanta as Model: The Hunter and the Hunted |journal=Classical Antiquity |date=1996 |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=48–76 |doi=10.2307/25011031 |jstor=25011031 }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Boardman |first1=John |title=Atalanta |journal=Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies |date=1983 |volume=10 |pages=3–19 |doi=10.2307/4104327 |jstor=4104327 }}
* Callimachus, ''Hymns & Epigrams''. Translation by Mair, A. W. & Mair, G. R. Loeb Classical Library Volume 129. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
* Diodorus Siculus, ''Library of History''. Translation by Oldfather, C. H. Loeb Classical Library Volumes 303, 377. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press.
* Hesiod, ''The Homeric Hymns'', Translation by Evelyn-White, H. G. Loeb Classical Library Vol 57. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
* {{cite journal |last1=Howell |first1=Reet A. |last2=Howell |first2=Maxwell L. |title=The Atalanta Legend in Art and Literature |journal=Journal of Sport History |date=1989 |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=127–139 |jstor=43609443 }}
* Ovid, ''Metamorphoses''. Translation by Melville, A. D
* Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' from The Myths of Hyginus, translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies, no. 34. https://topostext.org/work/206 
* Pausanias. ''Description of Greece''. English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.
* Philostratus Elder, Philostratus Younger, ''Callistratus''. Translation by Fairbanks, A. Loeb Classical Library Vol 256. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

== Further reading ==
* Bolen, Jean Shinoda. ''Artemis: The Indomitable Spirit in Everywoman'', Conari Press, 2014.
* {{cite journal |last1=Faraone |first1=C. A. |title=Aphrodite's ΚΕΣΤΟΣ and Apples for Atalanta: Aphrodisiacs in Early Greek Myth and Ritual |journal=Phoenix |date=1990 |volume=44 |issue=3 |pages=219–243 |doi=10.2307/1088934 |jstor=1088934 }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Mathews |first1=Richard |title=Heart's Love and Heart's Division: The Quest for Unity in "Atalanta in Catydon" |journal=Victorian Poetry |date=1971 |volume=9 |issue=1/2 |pages=35–48 |jstor=40001587 }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Reid |first1=Heather |title=Plato on women in sport |journal=Journal of the Philosophy of Sport |date=1 September 2020 |volume=47 |issue=3 |pages=344–361 |doi=10.1080/00948705.2020.1811713 |s2cid=225230978 }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Salinger |first1=Margaretta |author-link=Margaretta Salinger |title=Rubens's Atalanta and Meleager |journal=The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin |date=1944 |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=8–13 |doi=10.2307/3257236 |jstor=3257236}}

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* [https://www.worldhistory.org/Atalanta/ Atalanta]—[[World History Encyclopedia]]
* [https://www.theoi.com/Heroine/Atalanta.html Atalanta], a summary at the Theoi Project
* [https://artsandscience.usask.ca/antiquities/collections/items/greek-items/classical/sculpture/head-of-hygieia-or-atalanta.php Classical sculpture head of either Hygieia or Atalanta], a replica from the Louvre.
* [https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/art-and-design/atalanta-and-hippomenes-overmantel/ Atalanta and Hippomenes art collection] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210728203902/https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/art-and-design/atalanta-and-hippomenes-overmantel/ |date=2021-07-28 }}, National Museum of Scotland.
* [https://iconographic.warburg.sas.ac.uk/category/vpc-taxonomy-000113 The Warburg Institute Iconographic Database (images of Atalanta)]

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