| Atalanta (Cardboard, pastel 70-90cm.) 2005 |
| Working on an antique theme. "The Caledonian Boar ":..". Gathering bountiful harvest, Blue offered sacrifices to the gods, forgetting to thank Artemis. Offended, she didst send to Calydon ferocious giant boar, which ravaged the fields and orchards, killed people and cattle. Land remained unsown. "Then Oyney - says Apollodorus - invited to participate in the hunt for wild boar all the bravest warriors of Greece, notifying at the same time, that he who kills a wild boar, will receive a trophy in his skin." Apollodorus listed all - more than twenty - participants Kalidonskoy hunting. Among them was a woman: Atalanta from Arcadia.
Some hunters have to say that obscene them to go against the boar with her. But the head hunting Oyneya Meleager son, indifferent to Atalanta, insisted that she went with them. When pitched against the boar, he tore two hunters. In addition, one of them, missing, hit another dart.
Atalanta first wounded the boar, hitting him with an arrow in his back. Meleager finished off the beast. He presented with skin, and he gave it to Atalanta. Sons of the king of tests involved in the hunt, took away her skin, for which they were killed by Meleager (say that his true father was himself the god of war Ares )..." |
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