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Hippomenes

beat the swift Atalanta in a race by distracting her with golden apples. [Gk. Myth.: Bulfinch]
See: Cunning

Hippomenes

outraced Atalanta by tossing golden apples to distract her. [Gk. Myth.: Bulfinch]
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John Hare was also involved in management of the voyage of the Hippomenes, the ship commanded by Ross' brother, Robert, that picked up Alexander Hare and his household from the Cape and eventually delivered them to Cocos.
Enter brave Hippomenes, the subject of this month's Clip & Save Art Print.
The fleeing Atalanta, Hippomenes catching up and his golden apples slowing Atalanta down ...
The main value of David-de Palacio's essay, for Swinburne studies, lies not in its argument but simply in the fact that it draws attention to Swinburne's possible influence on later European writers, in his emphasis on this episode of Atalanta's history rather than the more popular story of her race with Hippomenes.
Hippomenes fell in love with Atalanta and desired to marry her.
The first is Manlius Hippomenes, a French aristocrat around the year 500 AD, who is fighting to keep the spirit of Roman civilisation alive in France as the barbarian hordes gather on the borders.
Yes, Guido Reni's superb Atalanta and Hippomenes may be described as an "authentic masterpiece" (243), but why did it draw the king?
In one race Hippomenes (or Milanion) was given three of the golden apples of the HESPERIDES by the goddess Aphrodite; when he dropped them, Atalanta stopped to pick them up and so lost the race.
In the Boeotian form of the legend, Hippomenes takes the place of Melanion.
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