Pausanias' Description of Greece

Atalanta

Family: Greek mythology · Role: mythic figure · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 19

Book 5 · Chapter 19

  • with Melanion (They are depicted together.) “there is Melanion, and Atalanta by him with a fawn”

Book 8 · Chapter 35

  • parent: Schœneus (The passage tentatively identifies Atalanta as Schœneus's daughter.) “And if Schœneus was a stranger in Arcadia, Atalanta’s Course near Schœnus may have taken its name from his daughter.”

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