Editing Atalanta (section)

== 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>