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Artemis and Apollo
Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis.
In Hellenistic times, especially during the 3rd century BCE, as Apollo Helios he became identified among Greeks with Helios, Titan god of the sun, and his sister Artemis similarly equated with Selene, Titan goddess of the moon.
Apollo and his sister Artemis can bring death with their arrows.
Apollo ( left ) and Artemis.
Mythographers agree that Artemis was born first and then assisted with the birth of Apollo, or that Artemis was born one day before Apollo, on the island of Ortygia and that she helped Leto cross the sea to Delos the next day to give birth to Apollo.
This time Apollo was aided by his sister Artemis in protecting their mother.
Apollo killed her sons, and Artemis her daughters.
Apollo and Artemis used poisoned arrows to kill them, though according to some versions of the myth, a number of the Niobids were spared ( Chloris, usually ).
When he found out the truth he sent his sister, Artemis, to kill Coronis ( in other stories, Apollo himself had killed Coronis ).
Apollo and Artemis in the North East corner
Also during Summer of 2009 archaeologists discovered in Actium the ruins of the Temple of Apollo ( in Greek Ναός του Ακτίου Απόλλωνος ) and found two statues ' heads, one of Apollo, one of Artemis ( Diana ).
In the classical period of Greek mythology, Artemis ( Greek: ( nominative ), ( genitive ) ) was often described as the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo.
Artemis ( on the left, with a deer ) and Apollo ( on the right, holding a lyre ) from Myrina, Greece | Myrina, dating to approximately 25 BC
Apollo ( left ) and Artemis.
Various conflicting accounts are given in Classical Greek mythology of the birth of Artemis and her twin brother, Apollo.
In ancient Cretan history Leto was worshipped at Phaistos and in Cretan mythology Leto gave birth to Apollo and Artemis at the islands known today as the Paximadia.
The myths also differ as to whether Artemis was born first, or Apollo.
Most stories depict Artemis as born first, becoming her mother's mid-wife upon the birth of her brother Apollo.

Artemis and Niobe's
Using arrows, Artemis killed Niobe's daughters and Apollo killed Niobe's sons.
* Theoi. com, Wrath of Artemis: Niobe Excerpts of Niobe's story from Greek and Latin authors in translation.
Meliboea was one of Niobe and Amphion's fourteen children ( the Niobids ), and the only one ( or one of two ) spared when Artemis and Apollo killed the Niobids in retribution for Niobe's insult to their mother Leto, bragging that she had many children and Leto had only two.

Artemis and Children
File: David Children of Niobe. jpg | Jacques-Louis David, Apollo and Artemis attacking the twelve children of Niobe, 1772
He has written for television, including The Stone Dance ( 1963 ), Children Playing ( 1967 ), House of Character ( 1968 ) ( staged by the Birmingham Rep as No Title in 1974 ), Blodwen, Home from Rachel's Marriage ( 1969 ), Bypass ( 1972 ), Atrocity ( 1973 ), the Alan Clarke-directed Penda's Fen ( 1974 ), and Artemis 81 ( 1981 ); for radio, including No Accounting for Taste ( 1960 ), Gear Change ( 1967 ), Cries from Casement as His Bones are Brought to Dublin ( 1973 ) ( also staged by the RSC ); and for cinema, including François Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451 ( 1966 ).

Artemis and with
In Greek mythology Artemis was the leader ( ηγεμόνη: hegemone ) of the nymphs, who had similar functions with the Nordic Elves.
Apollo's sister Artemis, who was the Greek goddess of hunting, is identified with Britomartis ( Diktynna ), the Minoan " Mistress of the animals ".
He fell to the fatal wrath of Artemis, but the surviving details of his transgression vary: " the only certainty is in what Aktaion suffered, his pathos, and what Artemis did: the hunter became the hunted ; he was transformed into a stag, and his raging hounds, struck with a ' wolf's frenzy ' ( Lyssa ), tore him apart as they would a stag.
While connection with Anatolian names has been suggested, the earliest attested forms of the name Artemis are the Mycenaean Greek a-te-mi-to and a-ti-mi-te, written in Linear B at Pylos.
A poem of Callimachus to the goddess " who amuses herself on mountains with archery " imagines some charming vignettes: according to Callimachus, at three years old, Artemis, while sitting on the knee of her father, Zeus, asked him to grant her six wishes: to remain always a virgin ; to have many names to set her apart from her brother Apollo ; to be the Phaesporia or Light Bringer ; to have a bow and arrow and a knee-length tunic so that she could hunt ; to have sixty " daughters of Okeanos ", all nine years of age, to be her choir ; and for twenty Amnisides Nymphs as handmaidens to watch her dogs and bow while she rested.
Okeanus ' daughters were filled with fear, but the young Artemis bravely approached and asked for bow and arrows.
Artemis practiced with her bow first by shooting at trees and then at wild beasts.
Alpheus, a river god, was in love with Artemis, but he realizes that he can do nothing to win her heart.
Artemis, who is with her companions at Letrenoi, goes to Alpheus, but, suspicious of his motives, she covers her face with mud so that the river god does not recognize her.
In yet another version, Adonis was not killed by Artemis, but by Ares, as punishment for being with Aphrodite.
She was beloved by two gods, Hermes and Apollo, and boasted that she was prettier than Artemis because she made two gods fall in love with her at once.
Artemis was furious and killed Chione with her arrow or struck her dumb by shooting off her tongue.
Hera struck Artemis on the ears with her own quiver, causing the arrows to fall out.
For example, some Byzantine coins of the 1st century BC and later show the head of Artemis with bow and quiver, and feature a crescent with what appears to be a six-rayed star on the reverse.
Either Artemis " slew Kallisto with a shot of her silver bow ," perhaps urged by the wrath of Juno ( Hera ) or later Arcas, the eponym of Arcadia, nearly killed his bear-mother, when she had wandered into the forbidden precinct of Zeus.

Artemis and their
Through those efforts, in mid-2012, the Swedish Artemis Racing team announced that they would create their team base in one of the former air station hangars on Alameda Point.
The creation of this temple is significant as Delos is particularly known as the birthplace of the Greek gods Artemis and Apollo who had temples of their own on the island long before the temple to Isis was built.
Then FF. C followed with Simeia ton kairon, and TXC ( now Artemis / Efthimis ) with their single Terror X Crew in 1995.
They saw the goddess as a parallel to their hunter goddess Artemis.
Apollo and Artemis slew all the children of Niobe with their arrows, Apollo shooting the sons, Artemis the daughters.
On their way to Troy to participate in the Trojan War, Agamemnon's ships were suddenly motionless, as Artemis stopped the wind in Aulis ( ancient Greece ).
After their return to Greece, and having been saved from dangers by Athena, she orders Orestes to take the Xoanon to the town of Halae where he is to build a temple for Artemis Tauropolos and let a man be sacrificed there during every festival in atonement for his own sacrifice.
Clytemnestra had held a grudge against her husband Agamemnon for murdering their eldest daughter, Iphigenia, as sacrifice to Artemis or Athena ( disputed ).
It was Calchas who prophesied that in order to gain a favourable wind to deploy the Greek ships mustered in Aulis on their way to Troy, Agamemnon would need to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigeneia, to appease Artemis, whom Agamemnon had offended ; the episode was related at length in the lost Cypria, of the Epic Cycle.
The king felt he had no choice but to agree, and so Melampus lead them to the city of Lusi where they were healed of their madness in a sanctuary of Artemis.
When their brother died, they cried incessantly until Artemis changed them into guineafowl and transferred them to the island of Leros.
Indeed, much confusion occurred with subsequent generations ; the identity of Bast slowly merged among the Greeks during their occupation of Egypt, who sometimes named her Ailuros ( Greek for cat ), thinking of Bast as a version of Artemis, their own moon goddess.
Thus, to fit their own cosmology, to the Greeks Bast is thought of as the sister of Horus, whom they identified as Apollo ( Artemis ' brother ), and consequently, the daughter of the later emerging deities, Isis and Ra.
The temple was constructed of marble and was built by King Croesus of Lydia to replace an older site destroyed during a flood, and it honoured a local goddess, conflated by the Greeks with Artemis, their goddess of the hunt, the wild, and childbirth.
Artemis Fowl, the main character and anti-hero, and his bodyguard, Butler, kidnap LEPrecon Captain Holly Short, a fairy elf, and demand a ransom from the People-the various fairies who have moved their entire civilisation underground to hide from humans-for one ton of twenty-four carat gold
Superboy, Artemis and Miss Martian revealed to the team their connections various villains and used them to set up a trap.
Artemis the gilder was married to Dionysius the helmet maker, as indicated by a curse tablet asking for the destruction of their household, workshop, work, and livelihood.
Karyai had a famous temple dedicated to the goddess Artemis in her aspect of Artemis Karyatis: " As Karyatis she rejoiced in the dances of the nut-tree village of Karyai, those Karyatides, who in their ecstatic round-dance carried on their heads baskets of live reeds, as if they were dancing plants " ( Kerenyi 1980 p 149 ).

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