I am Atalanta of Calydon. Although my father is unknown, some say I am the daughter of Iasus, and there are some hints that lead people to think an attendant of Artemis is my mother. My father was immensely disappointed that I was not a boy that he left me on the side of a hill in the forest. A she bear found me there and took care of me before a band of hunters cared for me until I was a fully grown woman. I was well known for loving to participate in male activities, like hunting. Others knew me from my participations in the Calydonian Boar Hunt and the Quest for the Golden Fleece. Before the quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason, the leader of the Argonauts, tried to get me to leave the quest because I was a woman However, I stuck around and was wounded in battle and the witch Medea healed me. …show more content…
After Oeneus, the king of Calydon failed to sacrifice to Artemis, she sent a boar for revenge. Meleager, the prince of Calydon, gathered me and some of his other companions to hunt the boar. During the hunt two centaurs attempted to insult me, so I killed both of them, making the first blood shed on the hunt part human. I was the first person to injure it by shooting my arrow and piercing it in the head. This injury slowed the boar down, allowing Meleager to finally stab it to death. He gave me the pelt as a prize, which made both of his maternal uncles extremely angry, for they thought a woman did not deserve the honor. So, Meleager killed them, which made his mother tremendously upset, and threw Meleager’s fateful log into the fire before killed herself and ultimately