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Atalanta was not a goddess because she was a mortal, born to mortal parents, King Iasus of Arcadia and Clymene the daughter of Minyas. It is possible that she could be a demigod(des) by way of her maternal grandfather (Minyas) who may have been a child of Poseidon.

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