[of Skythia], then may not my kine cleave a four-acred fallow field for a wage at the hand of an alien ploughman; else surely lame and weary of neck would they come to the byre, yea even were they of Stymphaian breed, nine years of age, drawing by the horns; which kine are ...
Several of the images below portray the goddess as Artemis Agrotera "Huntress"--a bow-drawing representation popular in the Peloponnese.CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTESCULT IN ELIS (SOUTHERN GREECE)Strabo, Geography 8. 3. 12 (trans. Jones) (Greek geographer C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) : "The ...
Greek goddess of the moon, wild animals, hunting, childbirth, etc. (identified by the Romans with their Diana); daughter of Zeus and Leto, twin sister of Apollo; her name is of unknown origin. Beekes points to arguments against the attempt to connect it with arktos "bear" (as "bear-god...
goddessAphrodite, who manipulated his fatherTheseus's emotions when he returned home to visit his family. The two got into an argument about Hippolytus marrying and having children, despite the latter insisting to remain at Artemis' Hunt, which resulted in Theseus drawing a sword and striking ...
Artemis is the Greek goddess of hunting, forests, mountains and animals. She is depicted as a young maiden with an archer’s bow and sometimes a crescent moon. The crescent is symbolic of her virginity and the fact she is a youth, brimming with spark and vigor. ...
"This glorious Artemis Sacred Journey superseded my expectations. The reenacting of goddess ceremonies in ancient temples was amazing, but for me the highlight was the "Art & Healing" activities, whether it was drawing mandalas on the deck by the beach every morning, or creating a little twig...
NASA's Artemis program, named for the goddess who was Apollo's twin sister in ancient Greek mythology, aims to return astronauts to the moon as early as 2025 and establish a long-term lunar colony as a steppingstone to even-more-ambitious future voyages sending p...