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posticon That rotten apple...again!


I love apples but, the way I keep stumbling on them being the fruit of -should I say, deception?-, I think I will reconsider my taste in fruits! emoticon I mean, look at the following myth!!!...

Atalanta (at-uh-LAN-tuh)
Abandoned at birth by a father who wanted a son, Atalanta became a great heroine and one the Argonauts. Unwilling to marry, she finally consented to wed any man who could beat her at a foot race. Such was her fleetness that she would have remained happily single, but that the Goddess of Love gave one of her suitors golden apples to scatter on the race course. These were magical, and Atalanta could not resist them. Stooping to gather them in, she lost the contest to her destined husband.

Honestly!!!!!...... emoticon

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C Berenice wrote:

I love apples but, the way I keep stumbling on them being the fruit of -should I say, deception?-, I think I will reconsider my taste in fruits! emoticon I mean, look at the following myth!!!...

Atalanta (at-uh-LAN-tuh)
Abandoned at birth by a father who wanted a son, Atalanta became a great heroine and one the Argonauts. Unwilling to marry, she finally consented to wed any man who could beat her at a foot race. Such was her fleetness that she would have remained happily single, but that the Goddess of Love gave one of her suitors golden apples to scatter on the race course. These were magical, and Atalanta could not resist them. Stooping to gather them in, she lost the contest to her destined husband.

Honestly!!!!!...... emoticon



The thing is... he had to be in front of her already, else she wouldn't have seen the apples he dropped, so he was already winning emoticon

The apple story is just Atalanta trying to salvage her pride... honestly, women! emoticon




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David Meadows wrote:The thing is... he had to be in front of her already, else she wouldn't have seen the apples he dropped...

A mere technicality!!! All he had to do was to reach her and stay beside her long enough to be able to throw ONE golden apple in her direction; if she stopped to collect it, ...pronto! He gained the advantage! Bah! Sneaky men! emoticon

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So, he could at least reach her... while carrying a load of heavy gold apples! Think how much faster he would have been without the apples! emoticon



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XD i thought this was gonna be somet like in english when we were talking about the big apple and i made the connection with appels and looking good on the outside but seedy and rotten in the inside. ah well.

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Bah!... No way David! No way! First off, he didn't have to carry but two or three apples only, which isn't such a big load. Second, if he was faster than Atalanta, then Afrodite would not feel that she HAD to interfere with her apple idea -would she? He would have won Atalanta fair and square! See?... emoticon

Nope...I maintain that apples and love-godessess and men, are all in cohouts. emoticon

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Hey, apples and a husband . . . what more could an ancient Greek woman WANT? emoticon

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Ahlyssah wrote:Hey, apples and a husband . . . what more could an ancient Greek woman WANT? emoticon

Let's clarify something here: not just ANY kind of apples AND the husband thing but GOLDEN apples (and the husband thing). That's different! emoticon emoticon

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Well, excuse me for liking apples emoticon

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Ahlyssah wrote:Well, excuse me for liking apples emoticon

Yeah but... wouldn't you like them better if they were golden? emoticon

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Hey, I just got the braces off. Biting into gold might be cause to get them replaced.

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LOL, Lyssa! emoticon emoticon emoticon

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     This is too funny, I bet hardly anyone in Atlanta (the capital, not women) actually ever heard this story! Their local government would probably debate the meaning, while ignoring the problem of over crowding, and water shortage. It would be like every other day. emoticon
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um.. well golden apples.
My theory, the only reason Atalanta's suitor managed to reach was that he ate a golden apple himself and being magical he was endowed with superhuman powers and he was capable of reaching her, but realizing he couldn't win, even with his enhanced ability he threw some down to slow her pace. emoticon


So the moral of the story is that even with enhanced abilitys men still need to cheat to win! emoticon

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fantasyturtle8187 wrote:...So the moral of the story is that even with enhanced abilitys men still need to cheat to win! emoticon


emoticon emoticon emoticon emoticon Way to go, FantasyT...way to go!... emoticon

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I googled Atalanta, and found out that the men started before her, and if she caught up with him, then he would be allowed to marry her.


Each of Atalanta's suitors should contend with her in a race so that the man should flee unarmed, and she should pursue him with a weapon; if she overtook him within the limits of the race, she should kill him and fix his head up in the stadium, but if he was not caught up, his due was marriage.



But my point is now reinforced, he needed a head start inorder to win, and then when she was catching up to him he threw down the apples to distract her. Then later in the myth her husband manages to get them both turned in to lions. emoticon

Go to this site to see the rest of the myth, it has some other relevent info too for other figures. Have fun!emoticon
http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Atalanta.html

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fantasyturtle8187 wrote:Go to this site to see the rest of the myth, it has some other relevent info too for other figures...


Very good site. Informative with great links. I enjoyed it thoroughly. Thanx Fantacy.
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Glad you enjoyed it, and that I could still prove that girls are better than boys. emoticon

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