![]() ![]() 751 ff (trans.Boyle) (Roman poetry C1st B.C. "Mistress maiden ( despoina nymphê), ruler of the stormy mountains."Ĭallimachus, Hymn 3 to Artemis 18 ff (trans. The tops of the high mountains tremble and the tangled wood echoes awesomely with the outcry of beasts."Īeschylus, Fragment 188 (from Orion, Etymologicum 26. ![]() ![]() "Over the shadowy hills and windy peaks she draws her golden bow. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C7th to 4th B.C.) : "Artemis of the wilderness ( agrotera), lady of wild beasts ( potnia theron)." The information on this page is best read in conjunction with the "Cult of Artemis" and "Titles & Epithets" pages.ĬLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES GODDESS OF WILDERNESS, ANIMALS & HUNTING I. This page describes the goddess' various divine roles and privileges including hunting and wild animals, birth and children, maiden dance and song, sudden death and disease, and her identification with Selene, Hekate, Britomartis and foreign goddesses. Diana Artemis-Diana with lunar-crescent, Greco-Roman marble statue, Chiaramonti Museum, Vatican MuseumsĪRTEMIS was the Olympian goddess of hunting, wild animals, children and birth. ![]()
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