Artemis-Diana, Greco-Roman marble statue C1st A.D., Musée du Louvre ARTEMIS, one of the great divinities of the Greeks. Her name is usually derived from artemês, uninjured, healthy, vigorous; according to which she would be the goddess who is herself inviolate and vigorous, and also ...
Statue of Artemis in a Museum in Ephesus, Turkey Nowitz, Richard Buy This Allposters.comA statue of Artemis the huntress, with her bow and a deer (this sculpture is also known as "Diana of Versailles"). Artemis the Huntress, Known as the "Diana of Versailles" Buy This Allposters....
"[Artemis] fierce huntress, glorying in the sylvan war: swift in the course, in dreadful arrows skilled, wandering by night, rejoicing in the field: of manly form, erect, of bounteous mind . . . immortal, earthly, bane of monsters fell, 'tis thine, blest maid, on woody mounts to dwe...
The first was the celebrated colossal statue of the goddess, of gold and ivory, which was erected on the acropolis of Athens; the second was a still greater bronze statue, made out of the spoils taken by the Athenians in the battle of Marathon; the third was a small bronze statue ...
"On Helikon (Helicon)--the spot is a shaded precinct sacred to the Mousai (Muses)--near the torrent of the river Olmeios (Olmeius) and the violet-dark spring of Pegasos (Pegasus), there stood beside the [statues of the] Mousai a statue of Orpheus, the son of Kalliope (Calliope), ...
: "Near the outlet of the river [the River Alpheios in Elis] is the sacred precinct of Artemis Alpheionia . . . In the temple of Artemis Alpheionia are very famous paintings . . . by Aregon the ‘Artemis Borne Aloft on a Gryps (Griffin).’"...
When they tried to mount to heaven, Jove with the help of Minerva [Athena], Apollo, and Diana [Artemis], cast them headlong into Tartarus. On Atlas, who had been their leader, he put the vault of the sky; even now he is said to hold up the sky on his shoulders."...
Athena was the only child of Zeus and Metis. She was very much loved by her father. She had no full siblings, but she had many half-siblings. Many of her siblings included famed deities such as Hermes, Persephone, Ares, Artemis and Apollo. You may inquire about Athena’s husband, but...
Sculpture depicting the Muse Erato (2ndCentury CE) Restored in 1774 with a head from a statue of Artemis;Vatican Museums, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Euterpe Euterpe is the Muse of Lyric Poetry and music, as well as ‘the one with a pleasant genius’. While Euterpe is the Muse ...
His mother, daughter of Phlegyas the horseman, ere with the help of Eleithyia, the nurse of childbirth, she could bring her babe to the light of day, was in her chamber stricken by the golden shafts of Artemis, and to the hall of death went down. For she in the madness of her ...