Atalantē - Atalantē (English spelling)

Japanese: アタランテ - あたらんて(英語表記)Atalantē
Atalantē - Atalantē (English spelling)

A female hunter in Greek mythology. She is mentioned in both Arcadian and Boeotian legends. Her mother was Clymene and her father was Iasos or Maenaros (Schoeneus in Boeotia). Because her Arcadian father Iasos wanted a boy, she was abandoned immediately after birth and picked up by a hunter. Like Artemis, Atalanta protected her virginity and loved hunting, even participating in the Calydonian boar hunt. She shot and killed Leukos and Helaios, two members of the Centaur monster clan, who tried to rape her. Atalanta, who did not want to marry, made it a condition for suitors to race against her and win, and killed the defeated young men one after another. However, Hippomenes (or Melanion) threw three golden apples given to him by the goddess Aphrodite one after another during the race, overtaking her while she was picking them up, and won the race, eventually making her his wife. Later, when the two were hunting together in the precincts of Zeus, he transformed them into lions, and the story of the boar hunt is told in Swinburne's play Atalanta of Calydon.

[Masahiro Ogawa]

[Reference] | Calydonian Boar Hunt

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

ギリシア神話の女狩人(かりゅうど)。アルカディアとボイオティアの双方の伝説で語られる。母はクリメネで、父はイアソスまたはマイナロス(ボイオティアではスコイネウス)。アルカディア人の父イアソスは男の子を望んでいたため、彼女は誕生後すぐに捨てられ、猟師に拾われる。アルテミスのように処女を守り、カリドンの猪(いのしし)狩りにも参加するなど狩りを愛したアタランテは、自分を犯そうとした怪物ケンタウロス一族のロイコスとヒライオスを射殺した。また結婚を望まないアタランテは、求婚者に対し自分と競走して勝つことを条件とし、敗れ去った若者を次々と殺した。しかしヒッポメネス(またはメラニオン)は、競走の際に女神アフロディテからもらった3個の黄金のリンゴを次々と投げ、彼女がそれを拾っているすきに追い越して勝ちを得、ついに彼女を妻とした。のちに、2人は狩りの途中ゼウスの神域で交わったので、神によりライオンに変身させられた。なお猪狩りの逸話はスウィンバーンの詩劇『カリドンのアタランタ』に語られている。

[小川正広]

[参照項目] | カリドンの猪狩り

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