gifts of 'golden Aphrodite.' According to a scholiast, Hesiod presented Hippomenes as racing naked. In some versions, the competitors ran a simple race with Hippomenes throwing the apples forward and to the side, while in others the race is a mock-hunt where Atalanta chases the suitor, which is possibly the one described in the Catalogue, though the passage is too fragmentary.

Hippomenes springs from the Boeotian version, one of the two major branches regarding Atalanta's mythos, the other being the Arcadian one, where his wife has a