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C Berenice
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Registered: 04-2004
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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! 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!!!!!......
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27/Nov/04, 22:44
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David Meadows
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Registered: 09-2003
Posts: 390
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Re: That rotten apple...again!
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! 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!!!!!......
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
The apple story is just Atalanta trying to salvage her pride... honestly, women!
Last edited by: David Meadows, 29/Nov/04, 14:38
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29/Nov/04, 14:37
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fantasyturtle8187
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Registered: 11-2005
Location: With the Turtles!
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Re: That rotten apple...again!
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.
Go to this site to see the rest of the myth, it has some other relevent info too for other figures. Have fun!
http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Atalanta.html
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