I’ve always been a fan of retold fairy-tales, so I was certainly psyched to check out mythology re-imagined. It is when Atalanta and Kahina come together that the sparks really fly. Kahina, a natural huntress with hidden knowledge, makes it to Atalanta’s home first, and awaits her arrival. Atalanta runs.įighting to make her own way (quite literally), Atalanta is followed by one of Artemis’ patronesses as her father frantically searches for her. Then, the hunters happily give Atalanta full and complete credit for the kill. And the men see Artemis, in her righteous rage and flanked by her huntresses, glaring at them over the corpse of her creation. He knows she’s an asset as “…the fastest runner he’d ever heard of and the most precise archer he’d ever dreamed of,” but his comrades simply see a beautiful, but (by definition, useless) female. In an either epic display of ignorance, or a sick desire to taunt the deity, the very King that caused her anger, proceeds to order his son to select a hunting party to slay her beast.ĭespite vehement opposition, Prince Meleager includes Atalanta.
One retaliation resulted in the creation of The Calydonian Boar. With a fine-tuned, blood-curdling cruelty.
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