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.

Robert Graves suggested that Aphrodite had been substituted for Artemis in this retelling of the mytheme of the eponymous Erymanthus.

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's sister Artemis, who was the Greek goddess of hunting, is identified with Britomartis ( Diktynna ), the Minoan " Mistress of the animals ".

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

Preparing to depart from Aulis, which was a port in Boeotia, Agamemnon's army incurred the wrath of the goddess 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.

* Hippo, an Amazon who took part in the introduction of religious rites in honor of the goddess Artemis.

Between the temple of Athena Nike and the Parthenon, there was the temenos of Artemis Brauronia or Brauroneion, the goddess represented as a bear and worshipped in the deme of Brauron.

Didrachm from Ionie representing the goddess Artemis

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.

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.

Artemis pities Arethusa and saves her by transforming Arethusa into a spring in Artemis ' temple, Artemis Alphaea in Letrini, where the goddess and her attendant drink.

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.

According to Hyginus Artemis once loved Orion ( in spite of the late source, this version appears to be a rare remnant of her as the pre-Olympian goddess, who took consorts, as Eos did ), but was tricked into killing him by her brother Apollo, who was " protective " of his sister's maidenhood.

Artemis punished Agamemnon after he killed a sacred stag in a sacred grove and boasted that he was a better hunter than the goddess.

At the Greek's journey to Troy, Artemis becalmed the sea and stopped the journey until an oracle came and said they could win the goddess ' heart by sacrificing Iphigenia, Agamemnon's daughter.

In some versions of the myth ,, Artemis made Iphigenia her attendant or turned her into Hecate, goddess of night, witchcraft, and the underworld.

Artemis, the goddess of forests and hills, was worshipped throughout ancient Greece.

Virginal Artemis was worshipped as a fertility / childbirth goddess in some places, assimilating Ilithyia, since, according to some myths, she assisted her mother in the delivery of her twin.

) From Artemis to Diana: the goddess of man and beast.

* Paximadia island ( Agia Galini, Rethymno ) where the god Apollo and the goddess Artemis were born.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Orion was Artemis ' hunting companion.

According to some versions of the legend, the hunting goddess Artemis replaced her at the very last moment with a deer on the altar, and took Iphigenia to Tauris ( See Iphigenia en Tauris by Euripides ).

The cultural and psychological importance of hunting in ancient societies is represented by deities such as the horned god Cernunnos, and lunar goddesses of classical antiquity, the Greek Artemis or Roman Diana.

Adonis was killed by a wild boar, said to have been sent vicariously by Artemis, jealous of Adonis ' hunting skills or in retaliation for Aphrodite instigating the death of Hippolytus, a favorite of the huntress goddess ; or by Aphrodite's paramour, Ares, who was jealous of Aphrodite's love for Adonis ; or by Apollo, to punish Aphrodite for blinding his son, Erymanthus.

Like other nature spirits, Pan appears to be older than the Olympians, if it is true that he gave Artemis her hunting dogs and taught the secret of prophecy to Apollo.

These close identifications of Iphigenia with Artemis have encouraged some scholars to believe that she was originally a hunting goddess whose cult was subsumed by the Olympian Artemis.

The relative Minoan goddesses were named Diktynna ( later identified with Artemis ), who was a mountain nymph of hunting, and Eileithyia who was the goddess of childbirth.

Meleagros led a hunting party to slay the Calydonian Boar, which was set loose upon Calydon by Artemis.

They were associated with Artemis, since the goddess, when she went out hunting, preferred mounts and rocky precipices.

When people saw Melaeger hunting beside Atlanta they thought that the goddess Artemis had came down to earth, this made the goddess very angry and in revenge made a boar so huge, so brave and powerful that it ravaged the kingdom of Caldoyn killing the livestock and trampling the crops.

The area held a main ancient temple, where Amarysia Artemis, the goddess of hunting, was adored, and the city's modern name derives from that of the goddess, Amarysia, which denotes the origin of the worship back in Amarynthos, Euboea.

* Dictynna: Originally a Cretan goddess of hunting, associated with Mount Dicte, she is evoked by Philocleon in line 368 as he chews on a net ( dictuon ), possibly as a pun though she was in fact identified with Artemis, the goddess of hunting nets.

According to some sources, Hippolytus had scorned Aphrodite in order to become a devotee of Artemis, devoting himself to a chaste life in pursuit of hunting.

Her hunting nature led to the Greeks, who later occupied Egypt for three hundred years, identifying Pakhet with Artemis.