Newborn Atalanta is left to die on a mountainside because her father wanted a son. Adopted by a woodsman, she grows into a great hunter and athlete, and is eventually reunited with her father, the King. When she must run the most important race of her life, on which her future happiness rides, the gods intercede. Illustrated in watercolor, tempera and gouache.
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Newborn Atalanta is left to die on a mountainside because her father wanted a son. Adopted by a woodsman, she grows into a great hunter and athlete, and is eventually reunited with her father, the King. When she must run the most important race of her life, on which her future happiness rides, the gods intercede. Illustrated in watercolor, tempera and gouache.
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