Artemis' golden arrows may also be, as those of her brotherApollo, the shafts of disease and death, as experienced by theNIOBIDS, who were killed by them after Queen Niobe2ofThebesprovokedLetowith her insults. The latter's sweet children then, in order to avenge her, shot most of theNI...
This page describes the goddess' various divine roles and privileges including hunting and wild animals, birth and children, maiden dance and song, sudden death and disease, and her identification with Selene, Hekate, Britomartis and foreign goddesses. The information on this page is best read in...
However, later stories told that Iphigenia’s mother, Clytemnestra, plotted to kill Agamemnon partly to avenge her daughter’s death. Conclusion Despite all her contradictions, or perhaps because of them, Artemis was a well-loved goddess in Greece and other Mediterranean countries, and her various...
So as to devote himself to a chaste life, Hippolytus scorned Aphrodite after which the goddess of love made his stepmother fall in love with him. This set a chain of events which led to Hippolytus’ death. However, Artemis called upon Asclepius and resurrected Hippolytus as a new man, who...
they put a string round the goddess' statue, and said in their jokes they would strangle Artemis. Some of the inhabitants of Caphyae who found the boys thus engaged in their sport, stoned them to death. After this occurrence, all the women of Caphyae had premature births, and all the...
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She was also a goddess of childbirth, and the protectress of the girl child up to the age of marriage--her twin brother Apollon was similarly the protector of the boy child. Together the two gods were also bringers of sudden death and disease--Artemis targetted women and girls, Apollon ...
Artemisis theGreekvirgin goddessof the hunt,archery, wilderness, animals, forests, the Moon, radiance, maidenhood, and childbirth. She and her twin brotherApolloare known as the "Twin Archers." Artemis drives themoon chariotacross the sky at night, a role she received whenSelene, the original...
ASPALIS A girl of Phthiotis (northern Greece) who was granted immortality by Artemis after her death. She became the protecting temple spirit of the goddess' shrine in Phthian Melite.BRITOMARTIS A girl of Krete (Greek Aegean) who became an immortal companion of Artemis after she leapt into...
Goddess Artemis. It was built in 550 BC. However, the temple didn't last long. In 356 BC, a man named Herostratus destroyed the temple with fire, because he wanted to have his_ 39 in history, Because of this horrible crime, he was sentenced (判决) to death and no one was allowed...