| − | '''Artemis''' was the [[Greece|Greek]] goddess of the hunt, who was known as Diana to the Romans. She was the daughter of [[Zeus]] and [[Leto]] and the twin sister of [[Apollo]]. She was represented by the full [[moon]]. | + | '''Artemis''' was the [[Greece|Greek]] goddess of the hunt, who was known as Diana to the Romans. She was the daughter of [[Zeus]] and [[Leto]] and the twin sister of [[Apollo (mythology)|Apollo]]. She was represented by the full [[moon]]. |
| | Artemis was the subject of several legends which have survived. In [[Ovid]]’s [[Metamorphoses]], the story is told of how the hunter Actaeon, having accidentally spied the goddess naked at her bath, is transformed into a stag, and hunted down and torn to death by his own hounds and the other members of his hunting party <ref> Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book III, lines 138-252</ref>. Elsewhere in Ovid, we learn of Artemis’s slaughter, with the help of Artemis’s brother [[Apollo]], of Niobe’s children in revenge for Niobe’s brag that she had fourteen children, while Latona ([[Leto]]) had but two<ref> Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book VI, lines 146-312</ref>. | | Artemis was the subject of several legends which have survived. In [[Ovid]]’s [[Metamorphoses]], the story is told of how the hunter Actaeon, having accidentally spied the goddess naked at her bath, is transformed into a stag, and hunted down and torn to death by his own hounds and the other members of his hunting party <ref> Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book III, lines 138-252</ref>. Elsewhere in Ovid, we learn of Artemis’s slaughter, with the help of Artemis’s brother [[Apollo]], of Niobe’s children in revenge for Niobe’s brag that she had fourteen children, while Latona ([[Leto]]) had but two<ref> Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book VI, lines 146-312</ref>. |