Artemis

Artemis: 

Artemis (Diana) Goddess

Physical Appearance: 

An eternally young, beautiful, vigorous woman. She wears a knee-length chiton (a sort of tunic) which leaves her legs free for running. Physical Appearance

Responsibilities: 

Responsibilities Goddess of the moon, wild things and huntsman to the gods. Patroness of unmarried women, youth, and childbirth.

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Strengths Independence, courage, confidence and physical strength. W eaknesses Vengeful, impulsive, aloof and dislikes men.

Artemis & Actaeon: 

Artemis & Actaeon Actaeon, a young hunter, was hot and thirsty after a long day of hunting. So he stopped at a grotto to get a drink of water… Sadly, he stumbled upon the favorite bathing spot of Artemis. The goddess was bathing when she noticed Actaeon watching her. She rose up out the water in rage, her eyes steely with affronted dignity(as she was the Virgin goddess) and flung water drops at him and turned him into a stag. She then sent her hunting dogs after him, so that they would ripe him to pieces. A small punishment in her eyes for him to dare look at a goddess naked.

Personality: 

Personality Aloof, nature-loving, majestic, quick to anger, athletic.

Artemis & Her Followers: 

Artemis & Her Followers Artemis spent most of her time hunting in the wilds surrounded by nymphs and dryads, all virgins like herself. Artemis insisted this upon her companions. So rigorous were her standards that any nymph who was not a virgin was punished- often by death.

Symbols: 

Symbols The cypress tree; all wild animals, especially the deer.

Family Relations: 

Family Relations Apollo’s twin; The daughter of Zeus and Leto.

Human Qualities: 

Human Qualities Artemis possesses an introverted and independent temperament. She concerned with matters of the outdoors, animals, environmental protection , and women’s communities. S he is practical, adventurous, athletic and preferring solitude.

Artemis’s Birth: 

Artemis’s Birth Historically, Artemis was born quickly by her mother, Leto. However, due to a curse from Hera, Artemis was the one who, immediately following her own birth, assisted her mother’s delivery of her brother in a long and difficult labor. She became known as the patroness of childbirth.

Artemis, Apollo and The tears of Niobe: 

A rtemis, Apollo and The tears of Niobe Niobe was the wife of Amphion, the King of Thebes. Together they had seven sons and seven daughters they were very proud of. One day, Niobe was boasting that she was a better mother than Leto , since Leto only had two children, Apollo, the god of the sun and Artemis, the goddess of the hunt. Outraged by the insult, Leto swore revenge on Niobe, so she asked from Apollo and Artemis to kill her children one by one. Apollo and Artemis obeyed and they killed all fourteen children with arrows dipped in poison; Apollo aimed at the male, and Artemis aimed at the female children. After their awful death, Niobe’s children were to remain unburied for whole nine days, for Zeus Almighty would turn anyone who attempted to bury them into stone. Upset and grieving, Amphion committed suicide, while Niobe resorted to Sipylos, a city of the Near East. Once there, she pleaded with the gods for mercy, asking from them to take away her life. The gods finally sympathized and they turned Niobe into stone, placing her right at the peak of the city. From then on, every summer one could see drops of water seeping out of the stone's pores...they were nothing but the tears of Niobe!

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Alice Cullen could be a modern day representation of Artemis because Alice is always going to be young( she's a vampire). She's beautiful and she's a great hunter. Alice is also very energetic and athletic. She could be Artemis’s sister.

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