Atalante Explained

Atalante is the French name for Atalanta, a heroine of Greek mythology.

Atalante also may refer to:

Places

• 36 Atalante, an asteroid
• L'Atalante basin, a deep hypersaline anoxic basin in the Mediterranean sea.

Greece

• Atalante (island), an island in Central Greece
• Atalante (Attica), an island in Attica, Greece
• Atalante (Macedon), a town of ancient Macedon, Greece
• Atalante (Phthiotis), a town in Phthiotis, Greece

Fictional locations

• Númenor, a fictional island in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, also called "Atalantë"

People

• Atalantē, sister of Macedonian general Perdiccas and wife of Attalus

Fictional characters

• Atlantes, a magician in Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato (1482)

Arts and entertainment

• L'Atalante, a 1934 French film
• Akallabêth, a short story by Tolkien about the Fall of Númenor, subtitled Atalantë

Transportation and vehicles

• Atalante, a body style for the 1937 Bugatti Type 57 automobile
• , various ships of the French Navy

Other uses

• Atalante Quebec, a far-right group in Quebec

See also

• Atalanta (disambiguation)
• Atalanti (disambiguation)
  • Atlante (disambiguation)
• Atlanta (disambiguation)
• Atlantic (disambiguation)
• Atlantis (disambiguation)