2023年4月13日 · Artemis’ most recognizable attribute was probably her bow, though she was sometimes shown with other weapons as well. She was generally depicted clad in a short hunter’s tunic. Artemis’ entourage included nymphs and woodland animals such as deer and bears. Statue of Artemis killing a deer from Delos (ca. 125–100 BCE)

2022年12月7日 · Other local traditions modified Artemis’ place of birth instead of Apollo’s. According to these, while Apollo was born on Delos, Artemis was born in either Ortygia or Coryssus in Ephesus (which housed one of Artemis’ most important ancient temples)—or, alternatively, somewhere on the island of Crete. The Wrath of Leto

2023年10月4日 · Callisto was a princess or nymph from Arcadia and a companion of the goddess Artemis. After being seduced by Zeus, she bore him a son named Arcas; but she was soon transformed into a bear by either Artemis, Hera, or Zeus. In her new form, Callisto was either shot down by Artemis or made into a constellation.

2023年3月21日 · In some images, the hind is being carried by Heracles back to Eurystheus, while in others Apollo or Artemis try to take the sacred creature back. Attic black-figure neck amphora showing Heracles wrestling the Ceryneian Hind as Artemis (right) and Athena (left) look on (ca. 540–530 BCE). Found in Vulci. British Museum, London. jastrow Public ...

2023年4月11日 · Delos, knowing that it had no natural gifts to offer, joyfully agreed to Leto’s terms. Thus, Leto gave birth to the twins Apollo and Artemis on the island, and in return Delos became one of Apollo’s sacred sites. Latona and Her Children by William Henry Rinehart (1874). Metropolitan Museum of Art Public Domain

2023年3月10日 · Phoebe was a Greek Titan better known for her descendants than for her own exploits. Her daughter Leto went on to have an affair with Zeus and gave birth to the powerful Olympians Apollo and Artemis.

2023年3月11日 · It is possible that a figure named as “Delos,” sometimes depicted alongside Apollo and Artemis in ancient art, represents this altered form of Asteria. Family. Asteria was a daughter of Coeus and Phoebe, two of the original twelve Titans born to Gaia and Uranus. She had one sister, Leto, the mother of Apollo and Artemis.

TO ARTEMIS (1–22) I sing of Artemis, whose shafts are of gold, who cheers on the hounds, the pure maiden, shooter of stags, who delights in archery, own sister to Apollo with the golden sword. Over the shadowy hills and windy peaks she draws her golden bow, rejoicing in the chase, and sends out grievous shafts.

2023年2月14日 · Arethusa herself was sometimes identified with Artemis, the Olympian goddess of the wild. In ancient art, Arethusa was most familiar from Syracusean coins, which often displayed her head ringed by a circle of leaping dolphins. These remain some of the most famous coins known from antiquity.

2023年6月7日 · The goddess Artemis demanded the girl’s life in exchange for a wind to blow the Greek fleet to Troy. Iphigenia’s story is part of the larger myth of the Trojan War, which broke out when the Trojan prince Paris carried off Helen, a Greek queen from Sparta. The Greeks assembled a vast army to sail to Troy and bring her back.