Actually, Aphrodite had interfered in her life once before, as this daughter of Schoeneus only married her husband, alternately called Melanion or Hippomenes, after being beguiled by the apples of the Hesperides during a race for her hand.
Her son, Parthenopaeus, was one of the 7 against Thebes, while her later actions offended Aphrodite to such an extent that she turned this heroine into a lion. Actually, Aphrodite had interfered in her life once before, as this daughter of Schoeneus only married her husband, alternately called Melanion or Hippomenes, after being beguiled by the apples of the Hesperides during a race for her hand. FTP identify this swift-footed huntress suckled by a bear after being abandoned as a child and whose greatest feat may have been inflicting the first wound on the Calydonian boar during the namesake hunt.
Her son, Parthenopaeus, was one of the 7 against Thebes, while her later actions offended Aphrodite to such an extent that she turned this heroine into a lion.
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