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  Schoeneus - One Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Schoeneus was a Boeotian king, the son of Athamas and Themisto.
Schoeneus was the son of Autonous and Hippodamia.
Schoeneus was the father of Clymenus of Arcadia.
www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Schoeneus   (125 words)

  
 Atalanta
She was from Arcadia, a daughter of Iasus or Schoeneus and Clymene.
Her father (Iasus or Schoeneus) wanted a son, so when Atalanta was born, he exposed her on a mountaintop.
Artemis sent a female bear to suckle her and she was eventually raised by a group of hunters.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/at/Atalanta.html   (376 words)

  
 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 738 (v. 3)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
A son of Perimedes, likewise a Phocian who was killed at Troy by Hector.
SCHOENEUS (2xo«/eu's), a son of Athamas and Themisto, was king in Boeotia and father of Atalante and Clymenus (Apollod.
The town of Schoerms is said to have derived its name from him.
www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/3072.html   (1034 words)

  
 Atalanta
It is unclear exactly where Atalanta comes from, some sources say that she came from Arcadia and was the daughter of Iasus and Clymene, but Hesiod and other sources attributes Atalanta's origin to Boeotia where her father is Schoeneus.
The contradiction over Atalanta's birth contributes to the assumption that there were two maythic women that were merged into one person.
After Atalanta's success at the boar hunt, Atalanta's father, Iasus or Schoeneus, was proud and claimed her as his daughter.
www.pantheon.org /articles/a/atalanta.html   (627 words)

  
 Free-Essays.us - Atalanta
Perhaps after all, Atalanta was more happy as a lioness than she would have been as a woman, but I do not know longer her side of the story, because she could no longer tell it.
My most unwanted character was her father, King Shoeneus, because he never cares for her daughter at all, all he wants is fame, fame and fame-that’s why in the end he accept Atlanta.
My favorite lines was when King Schoeneus said ”What’s the use of a girl to me? Put her on the mountains and let her die”.
www.free-essays.us /dbase/c5/ejs40.shtml   (1632 words)

  
 Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica - Fragments II
....fair Atalanta, swift of foot, the daughter of Schoeneus, who had the beaming eyes of the Graces, though she was ripe for wedlock rejected the company of her equals and sought to avoid marriage with men who eat bread.'
(12) The end of Schoeneus' speech, the preparations and the beginning of the race are lost.
And on them was laid an unenviable struggle: for she, even fair, swift-footed Atalanta, ran scorning the gifts of golden Aphrodite; but with him the race was for his life, either to find his doom, or to escape it.
www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/epics/CollectionofHesiod/chap10.html   (3228 words)

  
 OMACL: Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica: The Catlogues of Women and the Eoiae (fragments)
And of Aeson and Polymede, according to Hesiod, Iason was born: `Aeson, who begot a son Iason, shepherd of the people, whom Chiron brought up in woody Pelion.' Fragment #14 -- Petrie Papyri (ed.
3: `....of the glorious lord....fair Atalanta, swift of foot, the daughter of Schoeneus, who had the beaming eyes of the Graces, though she was ripe for wedlock rejected the company of her equals and sought to avoid marriage with men who eat bread.' Scholiast on Homer, Iliad xxiii.
As she moved, the breath of the west wind stirred the shining garment about her tender bosom; but Hippomenes stood where he was: and much people was gathered together.
omacl.org /Hesiod/catalogs.html   (7427 words)

  
 Atalanta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
She was thought to be a huntress and heroine of Calydonian boar hunt.
She was either the daughter of Iasus and Clymene or the daughter of Schoeneus and Orchomenus.
Her father, either of which it may be, wanted a son.
springfield.k12.il.us /schools/southeast/pprojects/Heroes/atalanta.htm   (228 words)

  
 The Aeolids
After long wandering he settled in Thessaly, where he married again, this time to Themisto, daughter of Hypseus, who was the king of the Lapiths.
Themisto bore four sons to Athamas: Erythrius, Leucon, Ptoüs (Ptous) and Schoeneus.
In an alternative story, Athamas thought that Ino had died and taken another wife, but Ino, had in fact, joined her sisters in Bacchant cult in Thebes.
www.timelessmyths.com /classical/aeolids.html   (4374 words)

  
 Schoeneus Sources
List of the Calydon boar hunt includes Atalanta, daughter of Schoeneus, from Arcadia;
Leucon, Erythrius, Schoeneus, Ptous, children of Athamas by Themisto;
Included in list of Argonauts: Atalanta, daughter of Schoeneus;
www.csulb.edu /~dbouvier/SourceFiles/i876Sources.htm   (31 words)

  
 Notebook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
A beast of vast dimensions, the boar destroyed the flocks and their attendants, and to rid themselves of the threat, Meleager, son of Oeneus, and Athaea summoned all the famous heroes of the time to help him.
Among those who came to Colydon were the Dioscuri Castor and Polydeuces, Lyngeus and Idas from Messenia, Theseus of Athens, Admetus of Pherae, Jason from Iolcos, Iphicles of Thebes, Peirithoos of Larissa, Amphiaraos came from Argos, the sons of Aeacus, Peleus and Telamon, the daughter of Schoeneus, Atalanta and others.
Meleager promised to award the hide of the boar as a prize to the person killing it.
www.noteaccess.com /APPROACHES/AGW/CalydonianB.htm   (342 words)

  
 Atalanta Page
The Boeotian Atalanta version (Arcadia and Boeotia are different regions of Greece) pretty well follows the same story line, but with a few exceptions.
In the Boeotian myth, her father's name was Schoeneus (Schoenus) and she married Hippomenes.
The foot race takes place in Boeotian Onchestus and the temple defiled was a sanctuary of Cybelle (Rhea).
www.thanasis.com /store/atalanta.htm   (1704 words)

  
 Atalanta --- Beaverland Mythology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
I’ve created her picture based on the above vase-painting of Atalanta (Brauronian arktos or a bear at Brauron), which was supposedly painted in 540 BCE.
The other Atalanta was born in Boeotia the daughter of Schoeneus.
These two Atalantas are sometimes taken as Artemis.
barclay.e-city.tv /myth/greek/atalanta.html   (1074 words)

  
 Apollodorus on Ino
I.9.2 But afterwards Athamas was bereft also of the children of Ino through the wrath of Hera; for he went mad and shot Learchus with an arrow, and Ino cast herself and Melicertes into the sea.
So Athamas settled in that country and named it Athamantia after himself; and he married Themisto, daughter of Hypseus, and begat Leucon, Erythrius, Schoeneus, and Ptous.
III.4.3 But Zeus loved Semele and bedded with her unknown to Hera.
mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu /medea_lecture/apollodorus2.htm   (352 words)

  
 Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod
`....of the glorious lord....fair Atalanta, swift of foot, the daughter of Schoeneus, who had the beaming eyes of the Graces, though she was ripe for wedlock rejected the company of her equals and sought to avoid marriage with men who eat bread.'
Hesiod is therefore later in date than Homer since he represents Hippomenes as stripped when contending with Atalanta.
28-29) `"O daughter of Schoeneus, pitiless in heart, receive these glorious gifts of the goddess, golden Aphrodite...' ((LACUNA))
www.4literature.net /Hesiod/Hesiod_Homeric_Hymns_and_Homerica/30.html   (652 words)

  
 4375.sec.quest.html
And once on a time it is said that out hunting they entered into the precinct of Zeus, and there taking their fill of love were changed into lions.
But Hesiod and some others have said that Atalanta was not a daughter of Iasus, but of Schoeneus; and Euripides says that she was a daughter of Maenalus, and that her husband was not Melanion but Hippomenes.
And by Melanion, or Ares, Atalanta had a son Parthenopaeus, who went to the war against Thebes.
www.hfac.uh.edu /mcl/classics/4375/4375.sec.quest.html   (697 words)

  
 A&A | Nocte vacant curis animi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Mount previously marked G.1922.XX.55 but no other record of this number has been found.
Printed lower margin and recto, 4 C. Schoeneus HG Invent Nocte vacant curis animi...
Copyright: © Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery, London
www.artandarchitecture.org.uk /images/gallery/db13aa0b.html   (46 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
....fair Atalanta, swift of foot, the daughter of Schoeneus, who
Hippomenes stood where he was: and much people was gathered
(12) The end of Schoeneus' speech, the preparations and the
ulib.org /ulib/data/cmu_classics/0d8/4ba/653/44e/1bc/d/00000020.html   (6302 words)

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