The most famous story involves Orion, a long-time hunting companion of hers. In fact, he may as well have been Artemis’ only love interest. However, when he tried taking off Artemis’ robe, the goddess killed him. Others say that Orion was actually killed by a scorpion sent by Gaea ...
31. 1 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : "At Zoster [in Attika] is an altar . . . to Apollon, to Artemis and to Leto. The story is that Leto did not give birth to her children here, but loosened her girdle with a view to her delivery [on her way to Delos],...
Many Greek and Roman myths include different versions or endings in regard to the story of Artemis. According to Greek mythology, Artemis was born on the island of either Ortygia or Delos. Her mother Leto was forced to go to an island to give birth to Artemis and her twin brother Apollo ...
Parthenius, Love Romances 15 (trans. Gaselee) (Greek poet C1st B.C.) : "This is how the story of Daphne, the daughter of Amyklas, is related. She used never to come down into the town, nor consort with the other maidens; but she got together a large pack of hounds and used ...
In some versions of the story of Adonis, who was a late addition to Greek mythology during the Hellenistic period, Artemis sent a wild boar to kill Adonis as punishment for his hubristic boast that he was a better hunter than she.
This paper argues (against most scholarship) that Euripides' Artemis condones human sacrifice, though the Greek characters do not realize this, and the poet uses the story of Iphigenia to examine the social repercussions of a conflict between divine and mortal valuations of human li...
Artemis, in Greek religion, the goddess of wild animals, the hunt, and vegetation and of chastity and childbirth; she was identified by the Romans with Diana.
♦IntheclassicalperiodofGreekmythology,ArtemiswasoftendescribedasthedaughterofZeusandLeto,andthetwinsisterofApollo.IntroductionI 4 IntroductionII ♦ShewastheHellenicgoddessofthehunt,wildanimals,wilderness,childbirth,virginity,fertility,younggirlsanddiseaseinwomenandoftenwasdepictedasahuntresscarryingabowandarrows....
In both versions of the story, Zeus took Callisto and placed her in the sky along with her son. They came to be known as the constellations Great Bear and Little Bear. The helplessness of mortals, especially women, against the gods is a common theme among stories in Greek mythology. Even...
Mythology: another name for Artemis, the moon goddess. 15,000 Baby Names Bruce Lansky 2010 Mythology: another name for Artemis, the moon goddess. 15,000 Baby Names Bruce Lansky 2010 The art in Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel actually made the story more enjoyable for me than the original ...