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Atalanta and Hippomenes. by *saturninus:iconsaturninus:

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©2006-2010 *saturninus
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Atalanta, the beautiful Greek princess did not want to marry.
To avoid the burden of a wedding and family life, she challenged her suitors: she marries a man only if he's faster than her.
During the running race, she had everyone executed who couldn't beat her.

Young Hippomenes, enthralled by her beauty, decided to trick her, since she was too fast to be outrun. Taking Aphrodite's advice, he dropped three golden apples on the course to distract Atalanta. She stopped indeed to pick them up, thus finally beaten in the race, obliged to marry her last suitor.

models: Annamária and ~Navros

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*hamster-chan Oct 12, 2009, 11:21:40 PM
This is amazing...You know, some people may not like it because it is not completely greek, or like the characters were described, but it looks to me like a modern version of that part of the story...And I think that's amazing.

It looks like you recreated the scene, and it's exactly the pose from one of the pictures from the Atalanta story in my Literature book.
Seriously, that is the EXACT pose of Atalanta in that picture, the bending down in that pose, her legs posed like that, her arms were in that position, and she was looking up JUST like that.
Excellent job :star:
The Artist thought this was FAIR
2 out of 2 deviants thought this was fair.
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*saturninus Jun 11, 2006, 8:32:50 AM
thanks. :bow:

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~bevels Jun 11, 2006, 8:36:29 AM
BIzzare.. it's like a cardboad cutout.. something very static about it! Really interesting photograph :nod:
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~ChaoticaConcept Jun 11, 2006, 8:42:37 AM
fucking freak with your stories....
love the self.vision.
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~flondo Jun 11, 2006, 8:47:41 AM
great translation of a classsic
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*saturninus Jun 11, 2006, 8:58:29 AM
thanks!
static, as my view upon classical themes.
the guy is really running, though.... :)

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*saturninus Jun 11, 2006, 8:58:54 AM
thanks.

["self.vision"??]

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*saturninus Jun 11, 2006, 8:59:21 AM
thanks a lot!
I really love doing that..... :nod:

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~DottorDark Jun 11, 2006, 9:05:54 AM
great picture . very funny :D

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NIKON CORPORATION
NIKON D70
10/16000 second
F/4.5
40 mm
Jun 10, 2006, 8:43:39 PM

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