Editing Atalanta (section)

=== 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}}</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/>