Artemis may have been represented as a supporter of Troy because her brother Apollo was the patron god of the city and she herself was widely worshipped in western Anatolia in historical times.

The name Kalliste ( Καλλίστη ), " most beautiful ", may be recognized as an epithet of the goddess herself, though none of the inscriptions at Athens that record priests of Artemis Kalliste ( Άρτεμις Καλλίστη ), date before the third century BCE.

The " Mistress of the animals ", later called Artemis, who was the first nymph, may be identified as the Minoan Britomartis, and has similar functions with the Sumerian Ninhursag.

Euripides ' tale of Artemis and Actaeon, for example, may be seen as a caution against disrespect of prey, or impudent boasting.

The deus ex machina salvation in some versions of Iphigeneia ( who was about to be sacrificed by her father Agamemnon ) and her replacement with a deer by the goddess Artemis, may be a vestigial memory of the abandonment and discrediting of the practice of human sacrifice among the Greeks in favour of animal sacrifice.

Her function may be paralleled by the Greek Artemis Orthia, if interpreted as the Artemis who lifts or raises children.

The Erectheion caryatids, in a shrine dedicated to an archaic king of Athens, may therefore represent priestesses of Artemis in Karyæ, a place named for the " nut-tree sisterhood " – apparently in Mycenaean times, like other plural feminine toponyms, such as Hyrai or Athens itself.

Often the epithet is the result of fusion of the Olympian divinity with an older one: Poseidon Erechtheus, Artemis Orthia, reflect intercultural equations of a divinity with an older one, that is generally considered its pendant ; thus most Roman gods and goddesses, especially the Twelve Olympians, had traditional counterparts in Greek, Etruscan, and most other Mediterranean pantheons, e. g. Jupiter as head of the Olympian Gods with Zeus, but in specific cult places there may even be a different equation, based on one specific aspect of the divinity.

A fragment of the play may indicate that Artemis appeared to console Clytemnestra and assure her that her daughter had not been sacrificed after all, but this Euripidean end, if it existed, is not extant.

Apollo sends him to steal a sacred statue of Artemis to bring back to Athens so that he may be set free.

The moon may be a reference to the Greek goddess Artemis, the ultimate independent woman warrior.

Artemis is required for opening the hairpins that are formed on DNA ends during V ( D ) J recombination, a specific type of NHEJ, and may also participate in end trimming during general NHEJ.

Artemis, the eponymous goddess of hunting, is seen using a curved bow, which may have been typical of Scythian tribes and further supports his affiliation with them.

Artemis Fowl may refer to:

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

* Ephesos, a Lydian Amazon, after whom the city of Ephesus was thought to have been named ; she was also said to have been the first to honor Artemis and to have surnamed the goddess Ephesia.

The myths also differ as to whether Artemis was born first, or Apollo.

Artemis also assimilated Caryatis ( Carya ).

: Listen to the words of the Great Mother ; she who of old was also called among men Artemis, Astarte, Athene, Dione, Melusine, Aphrodite, Cerridwen, Dana, Arianrhod, Isis, Bride, and by many other names.

The fleet probably also sacked Troy and Ephesus, destroying the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Her effect can be also seen on Artemis as the Lady of Ephesus.

The Minoan goddess represented in seals and other remains, whom Greeks called Potnia Thēron ' Mistress of Animals ', many of whose attributes were later also absorbed by Artemis, seems to have been a mother goddess type, for in some representations she suckles the animals that she holds.

Diogenes also tells us that Heraclitus deposited his book as a dedication in the great temple of Artemis, the Artemisium, one of the largest temples of the 6th century BCE and one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

There is also a less popular variation in which Artemis is one of the contestants, instead of Hera.

Veneration of a local Leto is attested at Phaistos ( where it is purported that she gave birth to Apollo and Artemis at the islands known today as the Paximadia ( also known as Letoai in ancient Crete ) and at Lato, which bore her name .< ref > Noted by R. F.

The epithet parthénos (), whose origin is also unclear, meant " maiden, girl ", but also " virgin, unmarried woman " and was especially used for Artemis, the goddess of wild animals, the hunt, and vegetation, and for Athena, the goddess of strategy and tactics, handicraft, and practical reason.

An allusion to Alpheius ' love of Artemis is also contained in the fact that at Olympia the two divinities had one altar in common.

Artemis made her a goddess, and not only the Cretans but also the Aeginetans revere her.

" In the Orphic Hymn to Prothyraeia, the association of a goddess of childbirth as an epithet of virginal Artemis, making the death-dealing huntress also " she who comes to the aid of women in childbirth ," ( Graves 1955 15. a. 1 ), would be inexplicable in purely Olympian terms:

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.

Artemis appears to have been divided in her motives, for it was also said that she had sent the young huntress because she knew her presence would be a source of division, and so it was: many of the men, led by Kepheus and Ankaios, refused to hunt alongside a woman.

Pindar, who was a very knowledgeable mythographer, hints that the mythic doe, even when slain and offered to Artemis, also continues to exist, to be hunted once again ( though not killed ) by Hercules at a later time.

He wanders, is purified, and eventually marries his cousin Hermione, who lives in Sparta ( he is also said to have traveled to Crimea to visit Iphigenia, who in some stories miraculously survived her father's attempt to sacrifice her to Artemis ).

In the iconography of Greek myth, the kneeling pose is also found in representations of Leto ( Roman Latona ) giving birth to Apollo and Artemis ( Diana ), and of Auge giving birth to Telephus, son of Herakles ( Hercules ).

* Tara ( Artemis Fowl ), a location in the Artemis Fowl series, also a real location in Ireland

Herodotus also relates that of the many solemn festivals held in Egypt, the most important and most popular one was that celebrated in Bubastis in honour of the goddess, whom he calls Bubastis and equates with the Greek goddess Artemis.

They noted that at Buto there was also a sanctuary of Horus ( associated by the ancient Greeks with Apollo ) and of Bastet ( associated with Artemis ).

Thus Aelian in the 3rd century AD could refer to " Artemis of the child-bed " ( On Animals 7. 15 ).

Homer's mention of potnia theron is thought to refer to Artemis and Walter Burkert describes this mention as " a well established formula ".

In technical terminology, the word-stems seleno-( from Greek selēnē " moon ") and cynthi-( from Cynthia, an epithet of the goddess Artemis ) are sometimes used to refer to the Moon, as in selenography, selenology, and pericynthion.

For example, in the anime / manga Prince of Tennis, Shuchiro Oishi and Eiji Kikumaru play together as a doubles team for tennis and as known as the " Golden Pair " for their talent, thus they are also called the " Golden Pair " when referring to them as a pairing. Another example is the series Young Justice, where shippers refer to Artemis and Kidflash as " Spitfire " because of a comment made by another character, telling Kid Flash to find his own " little spitfire ".