Atalanta (Greek:Αταλάντη, meaning "balanced") is a character from ancient Greek mythology. Her father, Schoeneus, wanted a son so badly that when Atalanta was born, he left her in the middle of the woods to die. Artemis sent a female bear to suckle her and eventually a group of hunters raised her.
Atalanta (Greek: ) (the modern TalandonÃsi), is a small island off Locris, in the Opuntian gulf, said to have been torn asunder from the mainland by an earthquake. In the first year of the Peloponnesian War this previously uninhabited island was fortified by the Athenians to prevent Locrian pirates attacking Euboea (Thuc.. ii. 32). In the sixth year of the war a part of the Athenian works was destroyed by the sea, with half the ships on the beach destroyed.