Story Of Artemis Research Paper
The Story of Artemis
Artemis can talk to and control animals. Artemis is usually found in the Arician woods. Artemis is usually found hunting with her bow & arrow.
Artemis is the twin of Apollo and their parent’s are Leto and Zeus. She has no children of her own. Artemis is the goddess of wild animals, hunt, and the moon.
Artemis was born on the island of Delos. She had a threefold divinity, being styled Artemis on earth, Luna, or the moon, in heaven, and Hecate, or Proserpine, in hell. The poets say she had three heads, one of a horse, another of a woman, and the third of a dog.
Artemis’s weapon is a bow and arrow. Her symbol is a full moon with a half moon on either side. She is seen in most myths as a girl running on in the woods …show more content…
In some versions of their myth, Artemis was born first and helped her mother to deliver Apollo.Niobe, queen of Thebes, once boasted that she was better than Leto because she had many children while the goddess had but two. Artemis and Apollo avenged this insult to their mother by killing all or most of Niobe's children with their arrows. The weeping Niobe was transformed into stone, in which form she continued to weep.When Apollo noticed that Artemis was spending a great deal of time hunting with the giant Orion, he decided to put an end to the relationship. He challenged Artemis to prove her skill at archery by shooting at an object floating far out at sea. Her shot was perfect. The target turned out to be the head of Orion.Artemis is generally depicted as a young woman clad in buckskins, carrying a bow and a quiver of arrows. She is often accompanied by wild creatures such as a stag or she-bear.
Facts about Artemis
Artemis is one of the three gods that swore never to marry. A temple built in her honor became one of the “Seven Wonders of the Ancient World”
Artemis killed Adonis,the god of love and desire
Known as the “Lady of Ephesus” She was one of the 12 Olympian gods who resided on the summit of Mount Olympus
Pan gave her 7 female dogs and 6 male.
Hercules took ceryneian hind as one of his twelve labors.
Artemis and Apollo attacked Niobe and her 14 children when they assaulted their mother
Her personality’s are protective,independant, compassionate,self sufficient,and
Artemis can talk to and control animals. Artemis is usually found in the Arician woods. Artemis is usually found hunting with her bow & arrow.
Artemis is the twin of Apollo and their parent’s are Leto and Zeus. She has no children of her own. Artemis is the goddess of wild animals, hunt, and the moon.
Artemis was born on the island of Delos. She had a threefold divinity, being styled Artemis on earth, Luna, or the moon, in heaven, and Hecate, or Proserpine, in hell. The poets say she had three heads, one of a horse, another of a woman, and the third of a dog.
Artemis’s weapon is a bow and arrow. Her symbol is a full moon with a half moon on either side. She is seen in most myths as a girl running on in the woods …show more content…
In some versions of their myth, Artemis was born first and helped her mother to deliver Apollo.Niobe, queen of Thebes, once boasted that she was better than Leto because she had many children while the goddess had but two. Artemis and Apollo avenged this insult to their mother by killing all or most of Niobe's children with their arrows. The weeping Niobe was transformed into stone, in which form she continued to weep.When Apollo noticed that Artemis was spending a great deal of time hunting with the giant Orion, he decided to put an end to the relationship. He challenged Artemis to prove her skill at archery by shooting at an object floating far out at sea. Her shot was perfect. The target turned out to be the head of Orion.Artemis is generally depicted as a young woman clad in buckskins, carrying a bow and a quiver of arrows. She is often accompanied by wild creatures such as a stag or she-bear.
Facts about Artemis
Artemis is one of the three gods that swore never to marry. A temple built in her honor became one of the “Seven Wonders of the Ancient World”
Artemis killed Adonis,the god of love and desire
Known as the “Lady of Ephesus” She was one of the 12 Olympian gods who resided on the summit of Mount Olympus
Pan gave her 7 female dogs and 6 male.
Hercules took ceryneian hind as one of his twelve labors.
Artemis and Apollo attacked Niobe and her 14 children when they assaulted their mother
Her personality’s are protective,independant, compassionate,self sufficient,and