In the story Atalanta and the golden apples, Atalanta was the fastest runner there was, but she grew tired of running and wanted a husband but the oracle told her that if she got married the husband would die of death. So she couldn’t not get married. But then she thought of something, she said that she would host a racing contest and the rules of the racing contest was that if a man beat her in a race they would get to marry her. Millions of men raced her but they were unsuccessful and they died. But this one man named Hippomenes thought that these men were foolish to risk their lives just to marry this girl. But then as he took one look at her he then fell in love, but he did not want to die so he then asked Aphrodite to help him marry her, so she helped him and gave him three golden apples and she told him to throw it at her. So hippomenes decided to race Atalanta and while he was racing her he threw a golden apple and she stopped and he kept throwing the three apples until he got in front of her and and won the race and he got to marry her but there was a catch all Aphrodite wanted in return was for hippomenes to say thank you and he didn’t so in the end he died.
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