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ATALANTA , in See also:Greek See also:legend, the name of two Greek heroines. (1) The Arcadian Atalanta was the daughter of Iasius or Iasion and Clymene. At her See also:birth, she had been exposed on a See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill, her See also:father having expected a son. At first she was suckled by a she-See also:bear, and then saved by huntsmen, among whom she See also:grew
up to be skilled with the See also:bow, See also:swift, and fond of the See also:chase, like the virgin goddess See also:Artemis. At the Calydonian See also:boar-See also:hunt her arrows were the first to See also:hit the See also:monster, for which its See also:head and hide were given her by See also:Meleager. At the funeral See also:games of See also:Pelias, she wrestled with See also:Peleus, and won. For a See also:long See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time she remained true to Artemis and rejected all suitors, but Meilanion at last gained her love by his persistent devotion. She was the See also:mother of Parthenopaeus, one of the Seven against See also:Thebes (See also:Apollodorus 9 ; See also:Hyginus, Fab. 99). (2) The Boeotian Atalanta was the daughter of Schoeneus. She was famed for her See also:running, and would only consent to marry a suitor who could outstrip her in a See also:race, the consequence of failure being See also:death. Hippomenes, before starting, had obtained from See also:Aphrodite three See also:golden apples, which he dropped at intervals, and Atalanta, stopping to pick them up, See also:fell behind.
Both were happy at the result; but forgetting to thank the goddess for the apples, they were led by her to a religious See also:crime, and were transformed into lions by the goddess See also:Cybele (See also:Ovid, Metam. x. 56o; Hyginus, Fab. 185). The characteristics of these two heroines (frequently confounded) point to their being secondary forms of the Arcadian Artemis.
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