Hippomenes ( also known as Melanion ) knew that he could not win a fair race with Atalanta, so he prayed to Aphrodite for help.

Other accounts say that Aphrodite changed them into lions because they did not give her proper honor ; she filled Melanion with lust and he stripped Atalanta in the temple.

The apples were irresistible, so every time Atalanta got ahead of Melanion, he rolled an apple ahead of her, and she would run after it.

In this way, Melanion won the footrace and came to marry Atalanta.

Zeus ( or Cybele, or Rhea ) turned Atalanta and Melanion into lions after they made love together in one of his temples.

In Greek mythology, Hippomenes (), also known as Melanion ( Μελανίων, also Meilanion Μειλανίων ), was a son of the Arcadian Amphidamas or of Megareus of Onchestus and the husband of Atalanta.

According to some accounts, Hippomenes ( Melanion ) was the father of Parthenopaeus ; yet others stated Atalanta had her son by either Ares or Meleager prior to her marriage to Hippomenes.

Zeus ( or Cybele, or Rhea ) turned Atalanta and Melanion into lions after they made love together in one of his temples.

King Schoeneus agreed, and many young men died in the attempt until Melanion ( or Hippomenes ) came along.

Amphidamas had two children: Melanion and Antimache, who married Eurystheus.

In honor of her memory, he asked the Senate to deify her as a goddess, and authorised the construction of a temple to be built in the Roman Forum in her name, with priestesses serving in her temple.

A poem of Callimachus to the goddess " who amuses herself on mountains with archery " imagines some charming vignettes: according to Callimachus, at three years old, Artemis, while sitting on the knee of her father, Zeus, asked him to grant her six wishes: to remain always a virgin ; to have many names to set her apart from her brother Apollo ; to be the Phaesporia or Light Bringer ; to have a bow and arrow and a knee-length tunic so that she could hunt ; to have sixty " daughters of Okeanos ", all nine years of age, to be her choir ; and for twenty Amnisides Nymphs as handmaidens to watch her dogs and bow while she rested.

When asked why men are excluded from the goddess rituals, Budapest has stated in a 2007 interview:

Cydippe was impressed with their devotion to her and her goddess and asked Hera to give her children the best gift a god could give a person.

Indicative of the power exercised by Tethys, one myth relates that the prominent goddess of the Olympians, Hera, was not pleased with the placement of Callisto and Arcas in the sky, as the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, so she asked her nurse Tethys to help.

In Australian Aboriginal mythology ( specifically: Kamilaroi ), Birrahgnooloo is a goddess of fertility who would send floods if properly asked.

The dragon fell in love with the beautiful goddess and asked her to be his consort.

In Dryden's song, the goddess of love chooses the Isle of Britain over her native Cyprus ; in Wesley's hymn divine love itself is asked to choose the human heart as its residence over its native heaven.

When the Athenians asked the people of Andros to give them money for their protection, because they had come with the aid of two gods, Peitho ( Persuation ) and Ananke, they replied that the power of Athens could never be stronger than the goddess Penia ( Poverty ) who expressed their inability to pay.

Gaia Online asked its users to " Send Gaia to Space " by naming the node " Gaia ", referring to the Greek goddess of the planet Earth, and " Gaia " finished third among the user-suggested names.

In this storyline, it was revealed that Tyrant is actually the elder brother of Shin-Goji, who had once ruled the island, but when their mother the Japanese sun goddess Amaterasu asked him to help end the ' War of the Monsters ' and he refused, she set events in motion so that Shin would break away from Tyrant ( whom she saw Shin as being too dependant upon ) and become the leader of the island.

There is also another legend that tells of a very pious lady Charumati who was asked by the goddess Varalakshmi, in her dream, to do the vratam in order to fulfill her wishes.

Frustrated by this, Naranath Branthan asked the Goddess to shift the Manth from his left leg to right leg, which the goddess readily did.

The stories of the great hero Houyi were known to the goddess and she took pity on him and agreed to give him the elixir, but with one condition: knowing that Houyi was a skilled architect, she asked him to build her a summer palace in exchange for the immortality drug.

After Aeneas ' death, Aphrodite asked Jupiter to make her son immortal.

Tithonus was a Trojan by birth, the son of King Laomedon of Troy by a water nymph named Strymo ( Στρυμώ promises too much, and might beguile Anchises into expecting too much, even an ageless immortality " ( p. 149 ).</ ref > According to the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, when Eos asked Zeus to make Tithonus immortal, she forgot to ask for eternal youth ( 218-38 ).

Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??

Barton waited for a long moment, then asked the question which lay always uppermost in his mind.

I have just asked these questions in the Pentagon, in the White House, in offices of key scientists across the country and aboard the submarines that prowl for months underwater, with neat rows of green launch tubes which contain Polaris missiles and which are affectionately known as `` Sherwood Forest ''.

On the glass partition between me and the driver were three signs: one asked for help for the blind, another help for orphans, and the third for relief for the war refugees.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

Their afflictions centered on one maddening difficulty: Miriam held up the divorce proceedings that she herself had asked for.

He was then asked for a solution of the difficulty, and began to talk trenchant sense, though private anguish showed through in the vehemence of his manner.

`` His fingers labor heavily on the strings and he asked for my help in disciplining them.

Robinson asked Herford to escort him to the club's lavatory before they sat down for a highball and a game of cards.

Hearst's luck was even poorer when he had a chat with Franklin K. Lane, a prominent California journalist and reform politician, whom he asked for his support.

This was not before the House but before the Judiciary Committee, where he asked for action on one of his pet bills, that calling for an investigation of the coal-railroad monopoly.

Kind by nature, he never refused charity to a beggar or help to anyone who asked him for it ( as Lewis would one day discover ).

Obviously the commander-in-chief had confidence that Morgan would furnish him good intelligence too, for on the 23rd of May, he told Morgan that the British were prepared to move, perhaps in the night, and asked Morgan to have two of his best horses ready to dispatch to General Smallwood with the intelligence obtained.

The first time I went there he asked me to bring him water from Flagler's well -- water that reminded him of his first days in the mountains -- and before I came the next time I filled a five-gallon jug for him and brought it to the hospital.

In Europe, Premier Clemenceau, showing his animal proclivities as the `` Tiger of France '', asked Pershing by letter for the creation of special houses where the sexual desires of American men could be satisfied.

At Milcote on November 3, 1597, the aldermen asked him to support their petition for a new charter.

In his letter mentioning Shakespeare on January 24, 1597/8, Sturley asked Quiney especially that `` theare might ( be ) bi Sir Ed. Grev. some meanes made to the Knightes of the Parliament for an ease and discharge of such taxes and subsedies wherewith our towne is like to be charged, and I assure u I am in great feare and doubte bi no meanes hable to paie.

This seems to refer, not to the loan Richard had asked for, but to a proposed bargain with Shakespeare.

It reminded me of my other professor, Edward Kennard Rand, of whom I had been so fond when I was at Harvard, the great mediaevalist and classical scholar who had asked me to call him `` Ken '', saying, `` Age counts for nothing among those who have learned to know life sub specie aeternitatis ''.

Lewis warned him never to lay a hand on him, and then Blackman asked for his fare back to the United States.