Atalante is the French name for

Atalanta Atalanta (; grc-gre, Ἀταλάντη, Atalantē) meaning "equal in weight", is a heroine in Greek mythology. There are two versions of the huntress Atalanta: one from Arcadia, whose parents were Iasus and Clymene and who is primarily known ...

, a heroine of Greek mythology. Atalante also may refer to:

Places

36 Atalante Atalante (minor planet designation: 36 Atalante) is a large, dark main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by the German-French astronomer H. Goldschmidt on October 5, 1855, and named by French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier after the Greek mythol ...

, an asteroid *

L'Atalante basin L'Atalante basin is a hypersaline brine lake at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea about west of the island of Crete. It is named for the French ''L'Atalante'', one of the oceanographic research vessels involved in its discovery in 1993. L'Atala ...

, a deep hypersaline anoxic basin in the Mediterranean sea.

Greece

Atalante (island) Atalanti ( el, Αταλάντη) or Atalantonisi (Αταλαντονήσι) or Talandonísi (Ταλαντονήσι) is a small uninhabited island in the North Euboean Gulf, about 600 m off the coast near the town Atalanti, Phthiotis, Greece. The ...

, an island in Central Greece *

Atalante (Attica) Atalanti Island ( el, Νησίδα Αταλάντη, Nisída Atalánti) is an island off the western coast of Attica, between Salamis Island and the port of Athens, Piraeus Piraeus ( ; el, Πειραιάς ; grc, Πειραιεύς ) is a ...

, an island in Attica, Greece *

Atalante (Macedon) Atalanta ( grc, Ἀταλάντη, Atalante) or Allante (Ἀλλάντη) or Allantium was an ancient city of Bottiaea, ancient Macedon, between Gortynia and Europos, in the upper part of the valley of the Axius river, which may have been built by ...

, a town of ancient Macedon, Greece * Atalante (Phthiotis), a town in Phthiotis, Greece

Fictional locations

Númenor Númenor, also called Elenna-nórë or Westernesse, is a fictional place in J. R. R. Tolkien's writings. It was the kingdom occupying a large island to the west of Middle-earth, the main setting of Tolkien's writings, and was the greatest civil ...

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

People

* Atalantē, sister of Macedonian general

Perdiccas Perdiccas ( el, Περδίκκας, ''Perdikkas''; 355 BC – 321/320 BC) was a general of Alexander the Great. He took part in the Macedonian campaign against the Achaemenid Empire, and, following Alexander's death in 323 BC, rose to becom ...

and wife of Attalus

Fictional characters

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

Arts and entertainment

* ''

L'Atalante ''L'Atalante'', also released as ''Le Chaland qui passe'' ("The Passing Barge"), is a 1934 French film written and directed by Jean Vigo, and starring Jean Dasté, Dita Parlo and Michel Simon. After the difficult release of his controversial sh ...

'', a 1934 French film * ''

Akallabêth ''The Silmarillion'' () is a collection of myths and stories in varying styles by the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien. It was edited and published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien in 1977, assisted by the fantasy author Guy Gavriel ...

'', 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 The Bugatti Type 57 and later variants (including the famous Atlantic and Atalante) was a grand tourer car built from 1934 through 1940. It was an entirely new design created by Jean Bugatti, son of founder Ettore. A total of 710 Type 57s were ...

automobile * , various ships of the French Navy

Other uses

Atalante Quebec Atalante is a far-right, white nationalist group based in Quebec City, Canada. Their leader and founder is Raphaël Lévesque (nickname Raf Stomper), lead singer for Quebecois skinhead band ''Légitime violence'' and leader of the earlier white po ...

, a far-right group in Quebec