Artemis (Diana)

The people who claimed to be citizens of Rome worshiped Diana among many gods and goddesses.

Most importantly is that she is remembered today, where as most other Roman gods and goddesses are forgotten - yet at the time of the Romans, she was often confused with other goddesses and was not more important then Apollo or Jove/Jupiter.

Some tools of Artemis are a silver bow and silver arrows.

The unlucky hunter that got turned into a stag by Artemis was Actaeon. He accidentally stumbled upon Artemis while the virgin huntress and her attendants were bathing. In revenge, Artemis turned him into a stag by splashing water on him. Then she sent his own hunting hounds on him. They tore him to pieces.

Ancient Greece.

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It is clearly a matter of opinion. Artemis and Athena are both strong virgin goddesses. If you are more of a outdoorsy tomboy, Artemis is better. If you are more of the smart and practical one, Athena is better.

No. Artemis was a virgin goddess.

No, she was a virgin goddess.

As a goddess she could do anything she chose: turn herself into a animal or different persona, turn others into different sexes and even animals - as well as sicken them, kill them, and bless them.

Leto

Greek deities weren't considered good or bad. They had more significance for some than for others, based on their patronage, but none of them was a paragon of goodness the way, for instance, the Christian god tends to be. Greek deities were often considered separate from morality in their own behaviors in legend, although they still punished and honored mortals based on their own morality, and the ancient Greeks tended to put a very high value on ethical or just behavior.

Artemis was considered a protector of maidens/virgins, but also caused Actaeon to be brutally killed for (at least in some accounts) accidentally seeing her naked. She ordered Agamemnon to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia, in her honor for offending her, but when he finally did so, she replaced Iphigenia with a doe and sent the girl to be a priestess for her.

It depends upon artistic interpretation. There is no rule here.

Artemis was the daughter of Zeus and Leto. When Hera, the wife of Zeus, found out that Leto was pregnant with twins fathered by Zeus, she flew into a jealous rage and forbade all lands and waters to give Leto rest. Poor Leto had to wander the earth to find a place to give birth. She finally came upon the floating island of Delos. Since it was floating, it was neither land or water and was free from Hera's curse. There Leto gave birth to Artemis and her twin brother Apollo. Artemis was born first and became her mother's midwife.

She was one of the twelve Greek Olympian gods and goddesses, and the only Olympian to be associated with the wilds and the hunt.

Symbols were often tied to the myths of Artemis, she used arrows and a bow as a hunting goddess, so those were among her symbols, as well as a chariot - sometimes said to be pulled by deer - the golden hind was sacred to her, and hunting hounds, as well as the lyre she often holds in art but rare in literature.

Deer, as mentioned above, were scared animals to this goddess, as well as boar because it once was sent to Oineus, to ruin his lands and was hunted by great heroes as well as it killing Adonis; and bear - among other instances the most well known is that Callisto was turned into a bear; Artemis Limnaia (Lady of the Lake) was also a goddess of lakes so fresh-water fish were scared to her, she turned the sisters of Meleagros -who she had killed- into guinea-fowl.

Partridges were sometimes told to be the darlings of Artemis. As it was scared to Leto, the quail became one of Artemis' birds and the island she was born on was named Ortygia after it. When hawks became a popular animal to attribute to gods and goddesses of Greece, the buzzard hawk was called Artemis scared bird.

Plants include Amaranth, a wild flowering shrub, Asphodel which was connected to the gods of the underworld and to Artemis in connection with Hecate and Persephone.

The cypress tree was associated with the birth of Artemis (and Apollo) because the island Ortygia apparently had a grove of them, under which the twin gods were born.

The palm trees of Delos, a island also named the birthplace of Artemis and Apollo, were also sacred to them.

Artemis was born on Ortygia, and traveled with Leto so she could give birth on rocky Delos. They then went to Olympus.

The Greek goddess of the Hunt and daughter of Zeus and Leto was Artemis. She was also the goddess of childbirth, maidens, the moon, and wildlife.

In the seventh century the old temple was destroyed by a flood. The construction of the "new" temple, which was to become known as one of the wonders of the ancient world, began around 550 BC. It was a 120-year project, initially designed and built by the Cretan architect Chersiphron and his son Metagenes, at the expense of Croesus of Lydia.

Artemis was the Greek goddess of the hunt, wilderness, and animals. She was also associated with childbirth and virginity. Artemis was often depicted with a bow and arrows, accompanied by a group of nymphs.

Artemis was worshiped because she was the virgin goddess of the hunt, nature, children, and child-birth.

In Greek mythology, that would be Artemis, daughter of Zeus. In Roman mythology, that would be Diana, daughter of Jupiter.

This is one of the rare cases where Artemis is credited with making and gifting only nets; however if a individual was favored by her, he or she was sure to have their ability to hunt focused. She was the protector of pregnant women giving birth, girls until the age of marriage, and healer of women (as well as goddess of women's death and sudden illness).