a priest or priestess who receives divine knowledge (usually about the future); 2. and cryptic and ambiguous message (prophesy) received by a medium (see definition 1). orgiastic A frenetic type of worship, especially of gods like Dionysus, Cybele, and maybe Artemis. It often included ...
Mars, a Roman deity first associated with agriculture, took on the characteristics of Ares, the Greek god of war, which explains why the Roman version of this god is concerned with both war and farming. Diana, a traditional Roman goddess of the forests, was identified with Artemis, the ...
Mythology Mythology is a collection of stories, legends, and folklore that tells of Greek history and their gods. Greeks used mythology to explain the world around them…Why it rained, or not. Others wrote myths to explain human behavior. For example, why humans became jealous, or angry. The...
she dared to compare her body with that of Artemis and claimed that theGreek goddess had a voluptuous body like a woman, raising a question mark on her supposed“unviolated maidenhood”. Deeply offended, the angry Artemis