Editing Atalanta (section)

===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>