Artemis at The Louvre, Paris

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The legend of huntress Artemis as a virgin has multiple origins: Boeotian and Arcadian. The first origin gives her father Schoenée, son of Athamas and mother Clymene, daughter of Minyas. The second attribute authorship to Lycurgus's son, Lasos. His father didn't want a girl; he was going to abandon it. A bear then hunters were supposed to collect it, which explains its masculine side. It killed the Centaurs Rhoecos Hylaeos and attempting to rape her and will be a candidate for the Argo, along with the Argonauts set out to conquer the Golden Fleece. Jason denies the presence of only one woman on board. Atalanta beats Peleus in the fight at Pelias's funeral games organized by the Argonauts revenues in Greece. She joins thanks to Meleager's intervention, the ranks of hunters who killed the Calydonian boar despite Ancaeus and Cepheus's hostility and others. It hurt the animal with an arrow before it was killed by Meleager. To thank her, he offers her the remains. Meleager kills his uncles who were trying to seize the trophy. He is punished by his mother Althea, which forbids him to marry Atalanta. His father requires her to marry one who can beat the runner and is willing to die on failure. All contenders lose their lives regardless of obstacles placed in their way. A young man (Milanion in Arcadia, Hippomenes Boeotia) receives three golden apples from Aphrodite's orchard in Tamasos, Cyprus. He launches them during the competition, and Atalanta stops to pick them up and is defeated. The pretender who doesn't respect his commitments to Aphrodite and dares eat his union within the temple walls will be transformed into a lion. Another tradition claims Atalanta is the mother of Parhénopaeos "son of a virgin" whom she abandons to peasants.