in greek mythology, hippomenes, also known as melanion, was the husband of atalanta. atalanta raced all her suitors and outran all but hippomenes, who defeated her by cunning, not speed. hippomenes knew that he could not win a fair race with atalanta, so he prayed to aphrodite for help. she gave him three golden apples and told him to drop them one at a time to distract atalanta. after each of the first two
