Definitions for "Atalanta"
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 Talandonísi), 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.
Atalanta is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel composed in 1736. It is based upon the mythological female athlete, Atalanta, the libretto (which is in Italian) being derived from the book La Caccia in Etolia by Belisario Valeriani. The identity of the librettist is not known.
The Atalanta was an English automobile manufactured in Greenwich, south eastLondon from 1915 to 1917. The 9hp light car sold for £195 with a non-proprietary four-cylinder 1097 cc engine.
The Atalanta was an English automobile manufactured from 1937 until 1939 by Atalanta Motors Ltd in Staines, Middlesex.