Atalan´ta

Daughter of Schœneus, king of Scyros. According to some she was the daughter of Jasus, or Jasius, and Clymene, but others say that Menalion was her father. She determined to live in celibacy, but her beauty gained her many admirers, and to free herself from their importunities she proposed to run a race with them. As she was almost invincible in running, her suitors, who entered the lists against her, were defeated, till Hippo menes, the son of Mac are us, proposed himself as an admirer. Venus gave him three golden apples from the garden of the Hesperides, and with these concealed about him he entered the lists to race against A talant a. As the race proceeded he dropped the apples, which she stopped to pick up, thus enabling Hippo menes to arrive first at the goal, and obtain her in marriage.