Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis.

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.

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.

The fortified site described below, originally identified as Abae by Colonel William Leake in the 19th century, is much more likely to be that of the Sanctuary of Artemis at Hyampolis.

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 ).

It is believed that a precursor of Artemis was worshiped in Minoan Crete as the goddess of mountains and hunting, Britomartis.

The childhood of Artemis is not fully related in any surviving myth.

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.

Sipriotes is a boy, who, either because he accidentally sees Artemis bathing or because he attempts to rape her, is turned into a girl by the goddess.

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, he is killed by Artemis, while in others he is killed by a scorpion sent by Gaia.

Artemis is a playable character in the Multiplayer online battle arena, SMITE.

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On the Tablets of Pylos a theonym δι ( digamma ) ια is supposed as referring to a deity precursor of Artemis.

The cult introduced by Orestes at Nemi is apparently that of the Artemis Tauropolos.

* Artemis Entreri, an assassin in the Forgotten Realms universe, created by R. A. Salvatore

In fact the assassin is as well known for his fearsome glare as he is for his fighting skill ; one look from Artemis has often been enough to evoke fear and stop people speaking in mid-sentence.

Second to the assassin Artemis Entreri and Obould Many-Arrows, Errtu is the greatest nemesis and most powerful and dangerous foe of the drow renegade, Drizzt Do ' Urden, though Errtu has described himself as ' he who hates Drizzt most '.

About 4 in 10 of those daggers are illusions, but as he pointed out to the assassin Artemis Entreri, " an illusion can kill you if you believe it to be real ".

However, danger is already following them before they can reach their objective, for Regis has a particular reason for coming along ; namely to elude the dangerous assassin Artemis Entreri, sent by Pasha Pook of Calimshan to recover the magical ruby that Regis stole from him.

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

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.

* Artemis: Goddess of the moon, fertility, childbirth, and the hunt.

The most famous example of this is the putative division of all the aspects of the so-called Great Goddess into a number of goddesses with more specialized functions — Gaea, Demeter, Persephone, Artemis and Hecate among them.

He equated Bastet with the Greek Goddess Artemis.

Pausanias was reminded that the temple of the Goddess at Ephesus predated the Ionian colony there, when it was rededicated to the Goddess as Artemis.

Instead, he honors the Goddess of the hunt, Artemis.

The Fawcett and pre-1985 version of Mary Marvel did not derive her “ Shazam ” powers from the male mythological figures who empower Billy, but from a set of female benefactors: Selena for grace, Hippolyta * for strength, Ariadne ( later changed to Artemis, Greek Goddess of the hunt ) for skill, Zephyrus for fleetness ( and flight ), Aurora, ( later changed to Greek Goddess Aphrodite ) for beauty, and Minerva for wisdom.

Goddess Artemis saved me and substituted a deer, which my father sacrificed believing he was thrusting the sharp blade into me.

Other characters of interest include Kora, the inn keeper, who unknown to Hercules and his friends, is a devotee of Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt.

It is suggested that she is a member of Poseidon's family, and it is known that she is a virgin huntress, possibly resembling the Goddess Artemis.

Sent by Artemis to ravage the region of Calydon in Aetolia because its king failed to honor her in his rites to the gods, it was killed in the Calydonian Hunt, in which many male heroes took part, but also a powerful woman, Atalanta, who won its hide by first wounding it with an arrow.

Sent by Artemis to ravage the region of Calydon in Aetolia, it met its end in the Calydonian Hunt, in which all the heroes of the new age pressed to take part, with the exception of Heracles, who vanquished his own Goddess-sent Erymanthian Boar separately.

The eight green columns, I learned, came from the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the others, red, from the Temple of the Sun at Heliopolis.

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.

The Delos sanctuary was primarily dedicated to Artemis, Apollo's twin sister.

Apollo and his sister Artemis can bring death with their arrows.

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

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.

Artemis and Apollo Piercing Niobe's Children with their Arrows by Jacques-Louis David., Dallas Museum of Art.

Apollo killed her sons, and Artemis her daughters.

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.

Two of the seven wonders of the ancient world were located in Anatolia: The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus and the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.

" In the version that was offered by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus, which has become the standard setting, Artemis was bathing in the woods when the hunter Actaeon stumbled across her, thus seeing her naked.

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.

An element of the earlier myth made Actaeon the familiar hunting companion of Artemis, no stranger.

Amethystos prayed to the gods to remain chaste, a prayer which the goddess Artemis answered, transforming her into a white stone.

The mortal turned out to be a beautiful young woman, Amethystos, who was on her way to pay tribute to Artemis.

Her life was spared by Artemis, who transformed the maiden into a statue of pure crystalline quartz to protect her from the brutal claws.

In ancient Greece, the amaranth ( also called chrysanthemum and helichrysum ) was sacred to Ephesian Artemis.

In legend, Amarynthus ( a form of Amarantus ) was a hunter of Artemis and king of Euboea ; in a village of Amarynthus, of which he was the eponymous hero, there was a famous temple of Artemis Amarynthia or Amarysia ( Strabo x.