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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: After Atalanta marries Melanion in the original myth, they don't properly honor Aphrodite, and get turned into lions as punishment. They don't get married in this book, preventing the incident that turned them into lions from ever occurring. When Stone Arch added a traditional retelling of Atalanta's story to the back, that version also left out this incident, by ending at the wedding.
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: After Atalanta marries Melanion in the original myth, they don't properly honor Aphrodite, Zeus, and get turned into lions as punishment. They don't get married in this book, preventing the incident that turned them into lions from ever occurring. When Stone Arch added a traditional retelling of Atalanta's story to the back, that version also left out this incident, by ending at the wedding.
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* CripplingOverspecialization: A variation. Hades, when trying to hide to avoid mortals, mentions that he has used his Helmet of Darkness to get out of trouble so many times he doesn't remember the shapeshifting spells, and has to (unsuccessfully) figure out something else when he realizes he's left the Helmet at home.
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* ForgotAboutHisPowers: A justified variation. Hades, when he tries to hide from mortals who might catch him looking undignified, mentions to himself that over the centuries, he has relied on his Helmet of Darkness (which turns him invisible when he puts it on) to get out of scrapes so many times that he doesn't remember the spells to change into something that looks like it belongs there, and needs to come up with another plan quickly since he's left the Helmet at home. He knows he has the powers, he's just forgotten how to use them.
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* ForgotAboutHisPowers: A justified variation. Hades, when he tries to hide from mortals who might catch him looking undignified, mentions to himself that over the centuries, he has relied on his Helmet of Darkness (which turns him invisible when he puts it on) to get out of scrapes so many times that he doesn't remember the spells to change into something that looks like it belongs there, and needs to come up with another plan quickly since he's left the Helmet at home. He knows he has the powers, he's just forgotten how to use them. May overlap with HowDoIShootWeb, though he doesn't try.
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* ForgotAboutHisPowers: A justified variation. Hades, when he tries to hide from mortals who might catch him looking undignified, mentions to himself that over the centuries, he has relied on his Helmet of Darkness (which turns him invisible when he puts it on) to get out of scrapes so many times that he doesn't remember the spells to change into a small animal, and needs to come up with something else quickly since he's left the Helmet at home. He knows he has the powers, he's just forgotten how to use them.
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* ForgotAboutHisPowers: A justified variation. Hades, when he tries to hide from mortals who might catch him looking undignified, mentions to himself that over the centuries, he has relied on his Helmet of Darkness (which turns him invisible when he puts it on) to get out of scrapes so many times that he doesn't remember the spells to change into a small animal, something that looks like it belongs there, and needs to come up with something else another plan quickly since he's left the Helmet at home. He knows he has the powers, he's just forgotten how to use them.
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* ForgotAboutHisPowers: A justified variation. Hades, when he tries to hide from mortals who might catch him looking undignified, mentions to himself that over the centuries, he has relied on his Helm Helmet of Darkness (which turns him invisible when he puts it on) to get out of scrapes so many times that he doesn't remember the spells to change into a small animal, and needs to come up with something else quickly since he's left the Helm Helmet at home. He knows he has the powers, he's just forgotten how to use them.
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* ForgotAboutHisPowers: A justified variation. Hades, when he tries to hide from mortals who might catch him looking undignified, mentions to himself that over the centuries, he has relied on his Helm of Darkness (which turns him invisible when he puts it on) to get out of scrapes so many times that he doesn't remember the spells to change into a small animal, and needs to come up with something else quickly since he's left the Helm at home. He knows he has the powers, he's just forgotten how to use them.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: The Argonauts appear well before the release of their own book. Hades and Atalanta both recall helping them and Jason find the Golden Fleece, although Hades says the specifics of his involvement are "another story".
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* EarlyBirdCameo: The Argonauts appear well before the release of their own book. Hades and Atalanta both recall helping them and Jason find the Golden Fleece, although Hades says the specifics of his involvement are "another story". Possibly subverted, as a book about Jason and the Argonauts has not yet come out, and there is no news yet on whether one will.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Traditionally, Atalanta pursues [[TemptingApple the golden apples]] due to either GoldFever or hypnosis. In this telling, she pursues the golden apples to pay off a ransom on the life of Prince Meleager of Calydonia.
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* BearyFriendly: Honey raises human Daughters of Artemis, such as Atalanta, with the same care that she provides her own cubs.
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* ArchnemesisDad: Atalanta's father [[ParentalAbandonment abandons the baby princess]] just because he wanted a son instead, and only invites her back to his castle after she becomes a celebrity, whose fame the king attempts to profit from.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Traditionally, Atalanta pursues [[TemptingApple the golden apples]] due to either GoldFever or hypnosis. In this telling, she pursues the golden apples to pay off a ransom on the life of Prince Meleager of Calydonia.
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Hades admits that Zeus only played a spectator role in the story of Atalanta and Melanion, leaving Hades with no idea why Zeus rewrote her chapter of ''The Big Fat Book of Greek Myths''; he speculates that Hera, the goddess of marriage, convinced Zeus to let Melanion win Atalanta's hand.
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* OnTheNext: In the epilogue, Hades pitches books about Jason and the Argonauts, [[Literature/HitTheRoadHelen the Trojan War]], and [[Literature/GetLostOdysseus the Odyssey]] to Hestia, who unfortunately admits that she doesn't have time to approve or publish any more ''Myth-O-Mania'' books yet.
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* HiddenInPlainSight: When Hades helps Persephone weed, he tries to hide from any mortals who might catch him working up a drosis[[note]]"god-sweat"[[/note]], but the quickest option proves ineffective -- he just sticks a basket on his head.
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* {{Disneyfication}}: Hades expresses disgust in the prologue that Zeus stripped Atalanta's chapter of ''The Big Fat Book of Greek Myths'' of all the suffering she endured, and even had the nerve to end it by claiming that she "...lived HappilyEverAfter."
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''Go For the Gold, Atalanta!'' is Book VIII in Kate [=McMullan=]'s ''Literature/MythOMania'' series, published in 2003. Hades records the achievements of "Princess Hero" Atalanta, from taming the Calydonian Boar, to out-running every eligible bachelor in Greece, to challenging gods in the Olympics.
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!!This book provides examples of:
* ArchnemesisDad: Atalanta's father [[ParentalAbandonment abandons the baby princess]] just because he wanted a son instead, and only invites her back to his castle after she becomes a celebrity, whose fame the king attempts to profit from.
* BearyFriendly: Honey raises human Daughters of Artemis, such as Atalanta, with the same care that she provides her own cubs.
* BigEater: Atalanta. Hades even refers to her as this, word for word!
* ChildMarriageVeto: Atalanta vowed to Artemis not to be married off to anyone, so she sets up an impossible EngagementChallenge.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Even after Melanion becomes the last man to lose Atalanta's EngagementChallenge, he gets on her good side by admitting that Hera and Aphrodite forced him to help break her vow of celibacy.
* EarlyBirdCameo: The Argonauts appear well before the release of their own book. Hades and Atalanta both recall helping them and Jason find the Golden Fleece, although Hades says the specifics of his involvement are "another story".
* EngagementChallenge: When Atalanta is imprisoned by her father after years of abandonment, he wants to marry her off. However, the Daughter of Artemis does not want to, so she says that she'll marry anyone who can beat her in a race, which no one ever does.
* GoodGuyBar: Calydon has one aptly named, "Heroes".
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each chapter title has a pun regarding bears.
* LamePunReaction: Persephone laughs sarcastically when Hades assures her that he'll be "rooting" for her to win an Olympic Gold Medal for weeding.
* LampshadeHanging: Hades admits that it seems unbelievable that he would have known Perseus, Hercules, ''and'' Atalanta ever since they were babies, and that becoming entrusted with Atalanta made him wonder if he became "some sort of baby magnet".
* LukeIAmYourFather: Gender-flipped: Atalanta's father [[DisproportionateRetribution banished his wife after she gave birth to a girl instead of a boy]], so Atalanta doesn't discover until the epilogue who her birth mother was. [[spoiler:Artemis reveals that her mortal friend Clymene, whom Atalanta meets before the race against Melanion, is the princess' birth mother.]]
* NemeanSkinning: Artemis wears the fur of animals she hunts.
* TheOlympics: Atalanta strives to become the first mortal to compete against the gods.
* RhymesOnADime: The Calydonian Boar can talk in rhyme.
* RunningOnAllFours: Atalanta can do this, since she was raised by a bear. [[spoiler:This skill helps her win the race against Melanion.]]
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Hades admits that Zeus only played a spectator role in the story of Atalanta and Melanion, leaving Hades with no idea why Zeus rewrote her chapter of ''The Big Fat Book of Greek Myths''; he speculates that Hera, the goddess of marriage, convinced Zeus to let Melanion win Atalanta's hand.
* TakeAThirdOption: Atalanta learns before the race that Melanion will try to distract her with three of Hera's golden apples, so Atalanta makes plans to both claim the apples, ''and'' win the race.
* TemptingApple: Atalanta finds the golden apples tempting, because all that gold could pay off a ransom on the life of Prince Meleager of Calydonia.
* WarriorPrincess: Atalanta, a strong and tough Daughter of Artemis whose long-lost birth parents reigned over Arcadia. After she both helps the Argonauts find the Golden Fleece, and saves Calydonia from the rampaging Calydonian Boar, everyone calls her, "The Princess Hero".
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!!This book provides examples of:
* ArchnemesisDad: Atalanta's father [[ParentalAbandonment abandons the baby princess]] just because he wanted a son instead, and only invites her back to his castle after she becomes a celebrity, whose fame the king attempts to profit from.
* BearyFriendly: Honey raises human Daughters of Artemis, such as Atalanta, with the same care that she provides her own cubs.
* BigEater: Atalanta. Hades even refers to her as this, word for word!
* ChildMarriageVeto: Atalanta vowed to Artemis not to be married off to anyone, so she sets up an impossible EngagementChallenge.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Even after Melanion becomes the last man to lose Atalanta's EngagementChallenge, he gets on her good side by admitting that Hera and Aphrodite forced him to help break her vow of celibacy.
* EarlyBirdCameo: The Argonauts appear well before the release of their own book. Hades and Atalanta both recall helping them and Jason find the Golden Fleece, although Hades says the specifics of his involvement are "another story".
* EngagementChallenge: When Atalanta is imprisoned by her father after years of abandonment, he wants to marry her off. However, the Daughter of Artemis does not want to, so she says that she'll marry anyone who can beat her in a race, which no one ever does.
* GoodGuyBar: Calydon has one aptly named, "Heroes".
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each chapter title has a pun regarding bears.
* LamePunReaction: Persephone laughs sarcastically when Hades assures her that he'll be "rooting" for her to win an Olympic Gold Medal for weeding.
* LampshadeHanging: Hades admits that it seems unbelievable that he would have known Perseus, Hercules, ''and'' Atalanta ever since they were babies, and that becoming entrusted with Atalanta made him wonder if he became "some sort of baby magnet".
* LukeIAmYourFather: Gender-flipped: Atalanta's father [[DisproportionateRetribution banished his wife after she gave birth to a girl instead of a boy]], so Atalanta doesn't discover until the epilogue who her birth mother was. [[spoiler:Artemis reveals that her mortal friend Clymene, whom Atalanta meets before the race against Melanion, is the princess' birth mother.]]
* NemeanSkinning: Artemis wears the fur of animals she hunts.
* TheOlympics: Atalanta strives to become the first mortal to compete against the gods.
* RhymesOnADime: The Calydonian Boar can talk in rhyme.
* RunningOnAllFours: Atalanta can do this, since she was raised by a bear. [[spoiler:This skill helps her win the race against Melanion.]]
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Hades admits that Zeus only played a spectator role in the story of Atalanta and Melanion, leaving Hades with no idea why Zeus rewrote her chapter of ''The Big Fat Book of Greek Myths''; he speculates that Hera, the goddess of marriage, convinced Zeus to let Melanion win Atalanta's hand.
* TakeAThirdOption: Atalanta learns before the race that Melanion will try to distract her with three of Hera's golden apples, so Atalanta makes plans to both claim the apples, ''and'' win the race.
* TemptingApple: Atalanta finds the golden apples tempting, because all that gold could pay off a ransom on the life of Prince Meleager of Calydonia.
* WarriorPrincess: Atalanta, a strong and tough Daughter of Artemis whose long-lost birth parents reigned over Arcadia. After she both helps the Argonauts find the Golden Fleece, and saves Calydonia from the rampaging Calydonian Boar, everyone calls her, "The Princess Hero".
