In Greek mythology Artemis was the leader ( ηγεμόνη: hegemone ) of the nymphs, who had similar functions with the Nordic Elves.

Artemis Daphnaia, who had her temple among the Lacedemonians, at a place called Hypsoi in Antiquity, on the slopes of Mount Cnacadion near the Spartan frontier, had her own sacred laurel trees.

When he found out the truth he sent his sister, Artemis, to kill Coronis ( in other stories, Apollo himself had killed Coronis ).

They had initially set up wooden statues of Artemis, a bretas, ( Pausanias, ( fl. c. 160 ): Description of Greece, Book I: Attica ).< ref >

However, the name Artemis ( variants Arktemis, Arktemisa ) is most likely related to Greek árktos ‘ bear ’ ( from PIE * h₂ŕ ̥ tḱos ), supported by the bear cult that the goddess had in Attica ( Brauronia ) and the Neolithic remains at the Arkouditessa, as well as the story about Callisto, which was originally about Artemis ( Arcadian epithet kallisto ).

Artemis believed that she had been chosen by the Fates to be a midwife, particularly since she had assisted her mother in the delivery of her twin brother, Apollo.

As a virgin, Artemis had interested many gods and men, but only her hunting companion, Orion, won her heart.

In later myths, Adonis had been related as a favorite of Aphrodite, and Aphrodite was responsible for the death of Hippolytus, who had been a favorite of Artemis.

Among other adventures, Atalanta participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar, which Artemis had sent to destroy Calydon because King Oeneus had forgotten her at the harvest sacrifices.

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.

According to some because Python had attempted to rape Leto while she was pregnant with Apollo and Artemis.

She was equated with the Greek goddess Artemis, though she had an independent origin in Italy.

Strabo's version looks to be the most authoritative as he had access to first hand primary sources on the sanctuaries of Artemis, i. e. the priest of Artemis Artemidoros of Ephesus.

Hesiod and Stesichorus tell the story according to which after her death Iphigenia was divinised under the name of Hecate, fact which would support the assumption that Artemis Tauropolos had a real ancient alliance with the heroine, who was her priestess in Taurid and her human paragon.

Heracles knew that he had to return the hind, as he had promised, to Artemis, so he agreed to hand it over on the condition that Eurystheus himself come out and take it from him.

Before she became associated with Greek mythology, she had many similarities with Artemis ( wilderness, and watching over wedding ceremonies )

According to some versions of the story, Hippolytus had scorned Aphrodite to become a devotee of Artemis, so Aphrodite made Phaedra fall in love with him as punishment.

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.

The gods were afraid of them, except for Artemis who captured a fine deer ( or in another version of the story, she changed herself into a doe ) and jumped out between them.

When Orestes arrives at Tauris with Pylades, son of Strophius and intimate friend of Orestes, the pair are at once captured by the Tauri, among whom the custom is to sacrifice all Greek strangers to Artemis.

Artemis had captured the real Regis and hidden him deep in the bowels of Mithral Hall.

Although Drizzt is captured by Bregan D ' aerthe and handed over to House Baenre, Jarlaxle gives Artemis many hints as to how one might rescue the ranger.

He fakes his death in a cave-in as a bid for freedom, and steals bars of gold from the Lower Elements Police Holly Short ( the elf captured by Artemis Fowl ) ransom fund before tunneling away.

On the advice of the Sixth Doctor, Cassie reluctantly abandoned the young Tommy when she became a human-vampire hybrid ( Project: Twilight, 2001 ) until the Doctor could find a cure for her ; before he could, she was hunted down, captured and brainwashed by Nimrod to become his replacement in the field, code-name Artemis.

All of her companions remained virgins, and Artemis closely guarded her own chastity.

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.

* Pleiades ( Greek mythology ), seven sisters who are companions of Artemis in Greek mythology

The storyline follows Artemis Fowl and his companions as they struggle to recover the " C Cube ", a supercomputer Artemis had constructed from fairy technology, when Jon Spiro manages to steal it.

The Pleiades ( or ; Greek:, Modern ), companions of Artemis, were the seven daughters of the titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione born on Mount Cyllene.

Artemis tracked Regis and his companions, as they sought the location of Mithral Hall, the dwarf Bruenor ’ s ancestral home.

Just as the companions are setting out, Artemis arrives in Ten-Towns, soon locating Regis ' abandoned home and finding Catti-brie there.

They were normally considered to be very shy creatures, except around the goddess Artemis, who was known to be a friend to most nymphs.

While in Miletus at a festival in honor of Artemis, she became an object of Apollo's desire and, fleeing from his advances, asked Pompilus, a seafarer and an old friend of her father, to take her home.

At first, Artemis is cold, cynical, and distant even from his closest friend, Butler.

He is also Artemis ' closest friend and accomplice.

" It has also been hypothesized by Jarlaxle Baenre, who knows Artemis very well, that somebody close to him, most likely a " parent or a close family friend " ( possibly a priest, and definitely a traveling merchant who helped him get to Calimshan ), betrayed him when he was less than nine years of age.

Artemis was never able to trust anybody as a friend as he grew up, and developed a belief that the only person he could truly count on was himself.

In the fourth book, Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception, he is en route to his hearings when he hears of Commander Root's death and escapes from and steals a LEPrecon shuttle, knowing that Holly couldn't have committed the murder and regarding Root as a ' sort of ' friend ( He is spared from Koboi's revenge as the LEP didn't advertise his involvement in her defeat to save face ).

Artemis again met Drizzt and Catti-Brie, and eventually the three reached an agreement to work together and escape the drow and their city.

Once seen, Artemis punished Actaeon: she forbade him speech — if he tried to speak, he would be changed into a stag — for the unlucky profanation of her virginity's mystery.

Actaeon Surprising Diana ( Artemis ) in the bath, Titian, 1556-59, for Philip II of Spain | Philip II ( National Gallery of Scotland ).

There are various other versions of his transgression: The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and pseudo-Apollodoran Bibliotheke state that his offense was that he was a rival of Zeus for Semele, his mother's sister, whereas in Euripides ' Bacchae he has boasted that he is a better hunter than Artemis:

There are several reasons throughout myth for such wrath: in Aeschylus ' play Agamemnon, Artemis is angry for the young men who will die at Troy, whereas in Sophocles ' Electra, Agamemnon has slain an animal sacred to Artemis, and subsequently boasted that he was Artemis ' equal in hunting.

Her death appeased Artemis, and the Greek army set out for Troy.

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.

The details vary but at the core they involve a great hunter, Actaeon who Artemis turns into a stag for a transgression and who is then killed by hunting dogs.

In some versions of the story of Adonis, who was a late addition to Greek mythology during the Hellenistic period, Artemis sent a wild boar to kill Adonis as punishment for his hubristic boast that he was a better hunter than she.

In other versions, Artemis killed Adonis for revenge.

In yet another version, Adonis was not killed by Artemis, but by Ares, as punishment for being with Aphrodite.

When the Greek fleet was preparing at Aulis to depart for Troy to begin the Trojan War, Artemis becalmed the winds.

Artemis asked Nemesis for help to avenge her dignity and caused the rape of Aura by Dionysus.

Pre-pubescent and adolescent Athenian girls were sent to the sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron to serve the Goddess for one year.

Though some Roman patrons ordered marble replicas of the specifically Anatolian " Diana " of Ephesus, where the Temple of Artemis stood, Diana was usually depicted for educated Romans in her Greek guise.

Julie Kohler, played by Jeanne Moreau, poses as Diana / Artemis for the artist Fergus.

It was founded by Zsuzsanna Budapest in the United States in the 1970s, and is notable for its focus on the worship of the Goddess ( usually Artemis ; Roman: Diana ), and on feminism.