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- The name Hippomenes may also refer to the father of Leimone.
Atalanta and Hippomenes, Guido Reni, c. 1622–25
In Greek mythology, Hippomenes (/hɪˈpɒmɪniːz/; Ancient Greek: Ἱππομένης), also known as Melanion (/məˈlæniən/; Μελανίων or Μειλανίων),[1] was a son of the Arcadian Amphidamas[2] or of King Megareus of Onchestus[3] and the husband of Atalanta. He was known to have been one of the disciples of Chiron, and to have surpassed other disciples in his eagerness to undertake hard challenges.[4] Inscriptions mention him as one of the Calydonian hunters.[5]
- ^ "Melanion" is used by Apollodorus, 3.9.2, Pausanias, 3.12.9; "Meilanion" occurs at Xenophon (On Hunting 1.2 & 7); "Hippomenes" occurs in Theocritus, Idyll 3.40; Euripides (as noted in the Bibliotheca l. c.; Euripides' work in question hasn't survived) and in most Roman authors. Ovid in Ars Amatoria (2.188) and Propertius, Elegies 1.1.9, use Milanion, apparently the Latin spelling for "Meilanion". It may have been that Melanion, son of Amphidamas, and Hippomenes, son of Megareus, were two distinct figures appearing in the same role interchangeably.
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.9.2
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.605; Hyginus, Fabulae 185
- ^ Xenophon, On Hunting 1.2 & 7
- ^ Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum 8139 & 8185a