What is a summary of a myth including Artemis?

Answer 1

In Greek Mythology, Artemis was the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo the Sun god. She was the Hellenic goddess of forests and hills,child/birth virginity/fertility, and the hunt and was often depicted as a huntress carrying a bow and arrows.The deer and the cypress were sacred to her. In later Hellenistic times she even assumed the ancient role of Eliethyia in aiding childbirth.

Answer 2

* Artemis transformed the hunter Aktaion into a stag, to be torn apart by his own hounds, as punishment for spying on her whilst she bathed.

* Artemis and Apollon slew the seven sons and seven daughters of Niobe as punishment for her arrogant boasts that she was superior in motherhood to their own mother Leto.

* She transformed her one-time companion Kallisto into a bear, when it was revealed that the girl had forsworn her pledge of virginity, becoming pregnant by the god Zeus.

* Artemis sent a gigantic boar to plague the Kalydonians, when their King Oineus neglected her share in the offering of the first fruits of the season to the gods.

* The goddess sent storms to prevent the Greek fleet from sailing for Troy as punishment for Agamemnon's foolish boasts that he surpassed the goddess in hunting. To appease her wrath he offered his daughter up as sacrifice. The goddess snatched her away before the killing blow was felled and substituted a deer.

Answer 3

The goddess Artemis and the giant Orion would go hunting together. This made Apollo jealous and he had Artemis' arrow strike Orion dead. She was upset but had Orion's body placed into the sky.

Answer 4

Artemis was the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. She is the goddess of the wilderness, the hunt, wild animals, virginity, and childbirth. She was often known with the crescent of the moon above her forehead and was sometimes identified with Selene who is the goddess of the moon. Artemis was one of the Olympians and a virgin goddess. Her main job was to roam mountain forests and uncultivated land with her nymphs in attendance hunting for lions, panthers, hinds and stags. She was armed with a bow and arrows, which is her symbols, while she was hunting.

In one legend, Artemis was born one day before her brother Apollo. Her mother gave birth to her on the island of Delos, then, almost immediately after her birth, she helped her mother give birth to her brother Apollo. This was the beginning of her role as a guardian of young children and a supporter of women in childbirth. Being a goddess of contradictions, she was the protector of women in labor, but it was said that the arrows of Artemis brought them sudden death while giving birth. As was her brother, Apollo, Artemis was a divinity of healing, but also brought and spread diseases.

Artemis with her twin brother, Apollo, killed Niobes' children. They killed Niobes' children because, Niobe had boasted to Leto, which is the mother of the divine twins, that she had a lot more children, which must make her superior to Leto. Apollo being offended at such an insult on his mother, informed Artemis. The twin gods hunted them down and shot them with their bows and arrows, and Apollo killed the male children and Artemis killed the girls.

Answer 5

Kallisto was loved by Zeus and mated with him. When Hera detected the intrigue she turned Kallisto into a bear, and Artemis to please Hera shot the bear.

Answer 6

There were a few myths including Artemis, below is a link including a few of those accounts.

Answer 7

A myth about the birth of the Greek Goddess, Artemis.