Much like many figures in Greek mythology, Atalanta has two different origin stories. In the first, the mortal heroine is the ...

Hades included one of Greek mythology's most famous punished sinners in Sisyphus, who is forced to repeatedly push a boulder (nicknamed "Bouldy") up a hill for all eternity. Hades 2 could show off ...

Atalanta, in part, is a variant on Artemis, or Diana in Roman times, the virgin goddess of hunting. But the story that has come down to us is also founded in recognizable human reality.

In Greek mythology, Atalanta the mortal and Artemis the goddess have similar sounding names and qualities. Artemis is the goddess with the silver bow and arrows, the hunter with unerring aim ...