Artemis's was heavily identified with Selene, the Moon, and Hecate, another Moon goddess, and was thus regarded as one of the most prominent lunar deities in mythology, alongside the aforementioned two.
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Usually, Artemis is the twin to be born first, who then proceeds to assist Leto in the birth of the second child, Apollo.
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Artemis was worshipped as one of the primary goddesses of childbirth and midwifery along with Eileithyia and Hera.
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In myth and literature, Artemis is presented as a hunting goddess of the woods, surrounded by her followers, who is not to be crossed.
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In certain versions, Artemis is the one to turn Callisto into a bear, or even kill her, for her insolence.
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Artemis demanded the sacrifice of Iphigenia, Agamemnon's young daughter, as compensation for her slain deer.
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Artemis was one of the most widely venerated of the Ancient Greek deities, her worship spread throughout ancient Greece, with her multiple temples, altars, shrines, and local veneration found everywhere in the ancient world.
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Artemis' symbols included a bow and arrow, a quiver, and hunting knives, and the deer and the cypress were sacred to her.
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Name Artemis is of unknown or uncertain etymology, although various sources have been proposed.
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Charles Anthon argued that the primitive root of the name is probably of Persian origin from *arta, *art, *arte, all meaning "great, excellent, holy", thus Artemis "becomes identical with the great mother of Nature, even as she was worshipped at Ephesus".
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Artemis is presented as a goddess who delights in hunting and punishes harshly those who cross her.
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Artemis' wrath is proverbial, and represents the hostility of wild nature to humans.
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Artemis's has several stories surrounding her where men such as Actaeon, Orion, and Alpheus tried to couple with her forcibly only to be thwarted or killed.
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Artemis's was generally represented as healthy, strong, and active, bearing quiver and bow and accompanied by a dog.
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Leto bore Apollo and Artemis, delighting in arrows, Both of lovely shape like none of the heavenly gods, As she joined in love to the Aegis-bearing ruler.
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Artemis believed she had been chosen by the Fates to be a midwife, particularly as she had assisted her mother in the delivery of her twin brother Apollo.
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Callimachus then tells how Artemis spent her girlhood seeking out the things she would need to be a huntress, and how she obtained her bow and arrows from the isle of Lipara, where Hephaestus and the Cyclopes worked.
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Artemis goes on to describe how she visited Pan, god of the forest, who gave her seven female and six male hounds.
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Artemis's then captured six golden-horned deer to pull her chariot.
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Artemis practiced archery first by shooting at trees and then at wild game.
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Artemis taught a man, Scamandrius, how to be a great archer, and he excelled in the use of a bow and arrow with her guidance.
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Broteas was a famous hunter who refused to honour Artemis, and boasted that nothing could harm him, not even fire.
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Artemis then drove him mad, causing him to walk into fire, ending his life.
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The details vary but at the core, they involve the great hunter Actaeon whom Artemis turns into a stag for a transgression, and who is then killed by hunting dogs.
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Diodorus Siculus wrote that Actaeon dedicated his prizes in hunting to Artemis, proposed marriage to her, and even tried to forcefully consummate said "marriage" inside the very sacred temple of the goddess; for this he was given the form "of one of the animals which he was wont to hunt", and then torn to shreds by his hunting dogs.
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Artemis's summoned her children and commanded them to avenge the slight against her.
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In some versions, Apollo and Artemis spared a single son and daughter each, for they prayed to Leto for help; thus Niobe had as many children as Leto did, but no more.
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Orion was Artemis' hunting companion; after giving up on trying to find Oenopion, Orion met Artemis and her mother Leto, and joined the goddess in hunting.
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Artemis then transferred him into the stars as the constellation Orion.
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Istrus wrote a version in which Artemis fell in love with Orion, apparently the only person she ever did.
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Artemis's meant to marry him, and no talk from her brother Apollo would change her mind.
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Callisto, the daughter of Lycaon, King of Arcadia, was one of Artemis' hunting attendants, and, as a companion of Artemis, took a vow of chastity.
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Enraged, Artemis transformed Callisto into a bear, and in this form she gave birth to her son Arcas.
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Artemis then shot the bear, either upon the persuasion of Hera, or out of anger at Callisto for breaking her virginity.
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Artemis was furious and killed Chione with an arrow, or struck her mute by shooting off her tongue.
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Artemis saved the infant Atalanta from dying of exposure after her father abandoned her.
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Artemis's sent a female bear to nurse the baby, who was then raised by hunters.
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Artemis's hung it in a sacred grove at Tegea as a dedication to Artemis.
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When out hunting one day with Artemis, she asserts that the goddess's voluptuous body and breasts are too womanly and sensual, and doubts her virginity, arguing that her own lithe body and man-like breasts are better than Artemis' and a true symbol of her own chastity.
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The gods were afraid of them, except for Artemis who captured a fine deer that jumped out between them.
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Artemis then turns into a deer and causes them to kill each other.
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In some versions of the story of Adonis, Artemis sent a wild boar to kill him as punishment for boasting that he was a better hunter than her.
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Polyphonte was a young woman who fled home in pursuit of a free, virginal life with Artemis, as opposed to the conventional life of marriage and children favoured by Aphrodite.
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Artemis plays a significant role in the war; like Leto and Apollo, Artemis took the side of the Trojans.
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At the beginning of the Greek's journey to Troy, Artemis punished Agamemnon after he killed a sacred stag in a sacred grove and boasted that he was a better hunter than the goddess.
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In some version of the myth, Artemis then snatched Iphigenia from the altar and substituted a deer; in others, Artemis allowed Iphigenia to be sacrificed.
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In versions where Iphigenia survived, a number of different myths have been told about what happened after Artemis took her; either she was brought to Tauros and led the priests there, or she became Artemis' immortal companion.
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Crying, Artemis left her bow and arrows where they lay and ran to Olympus to cry at her father Zeus' knees, while her mother Leto picked up her bow and arrows and followed her weeping daughter.
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Artemis's was often depicted in paintings and statues in a forest setting, carrying a bow and arrows and accompanied by a deer.
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Athenian festivals in honor of Artemis included Elaphebolia, Mounikhia, Kharisteria, and Brauronia.
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Artemis's demanded that young girls "act the bear" at her sanctuary in atonement for the bear's death.
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Artemis was worshipped as one of the primary goddesses of childbirth and midwifery along with Eileithyia.
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Artemis could be a deity to be feared by pregnant women, as deaths during this time were attributed to her.
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Artemis's was worshipped at Naupactus as Aetole; in her temple in that town, there was a statue of white marble representing her throwing a javelin.
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Artemis's was sometimes known as Cynthia, from her birthplace on Mount Cynthus on Delos, or Amarynthia from a festival in her honor originally held at Amarynthus in Euboea.
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Artemis's was sometimes identified by the name Phoebe, the feminine form of her brother Apollo's solar epithet Phoebus.
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Artemis Alphaea was associated with the wearing of masks, largely because of the legend that while fleeing the advances of Alpheius, she and her nymphs escaped him by covering their faces.
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Artemis was born on the sixth day of the month Thargelion, which made it sacred for her, as her birthday.
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The ancient cultural context in which Artemis' worship emerged held that virginity was a prerequisite to marriage, and that a married woman became subservient to her husband.
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Artemis was traditionally linked to fertility and was petitioned to assist women with childbirth.
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Notably, Roman-era author Plutarch writes how during the Battle of Salamis, Artemis led the Athenians to victory by shining with the full moon; but all lunar-related narratives of this event come from Roman times, and none of the contemporary writers make any mention of the night or the Moon.
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Selene, just like Artemis, was linked to childbirth, as it was believed that women had the easiest labours during the full moon, paving thus the way for the two goddesses to be seen as the same.
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The arrows of Artemis could bring sudden death and disease to girls and women.
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Artemis got her bow and arrow for the first time from the Cyclopes, as the one she asked from her father.
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The bow of Artemis became the witness of Callisto's oath of her virginity.
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Artemis' chariot was made of gold and was pulled by four golden horned deer.
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Artemis's caught five golden-horned deer and harnessed them to her chariot.
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Artemis got her hunting dogs from Pan in the forest of Arcadia.
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Artemis felt pity for the Meleagrids as they mourned for their lost brother, Meleager, so she transformed them into Guinea Fowl to be her favorite animals.
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When portrayed as a Moon goddess, Artemis wore a long robe and sometimes a veil covered her head.
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Artemis was sometimes represented in Classical art with the crown of the crescent moon, such as found on Luna and others.
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Artemis is the acronym for "Architectures de bolometres pour des Telescopes a grand champ de vue dans le domaine sub-Millimetrique au Sol", a large bolometer camera in the submillimeter range that was installed in 2010 at the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment, located in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile.
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