Hippomenes
Americannoun
noun
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In 1987, he appropriated her masterpiece, a monumental work of photographic performance art around the Cibeles Fountain in the city, based on the myth of Hippomenes and Atalanta, to make a kind of campaign poster.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2020
When a suitor, Hippomenes, challenges Atalanta, he lures her off course with three golden apples.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2019
Atalanta’s greed costs her the race and she is forced to marry Hippomenes.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2019
Some of his key paintings, such as the Prado's extraordinary Atalanta and Hippomenes, in which he achieved a grand synthesis of Caravaggism and classical diction, are missing from Fort Worth.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Unlucky youths,” cried Hippomenes, “how foolish they are to try to win a bride at the price of their lives.”
From The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum
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