god
Artemis
also: Ἄρτεμις, who pours arrows, ἰοχέαιρα, the loud huntress
Goddess of the hunt and the wild, twin sister of Apollo, born on Ortygia as he was born on Delos (Hymn 3). Hymns 9 and 27 hymn her directly.
Reading notes
- The Homeric Hymns §3.1 Artemis
Goddess of the hunt and the wild, twin sister of Apollo, born on Ortygia as he was born on Delos (Hymn 3). Hymns 9 and 27 hymn her directly.
- The Iliad §5.35 Artemis
Goddess of the hunt, Apollo's twin sister; a partisan of Troy who takes little active part in the fighting but is listed among the gods ranged for the Trojans in the Book 20 theomachy.
- The Odyssey §5.121 Artemis
Goddess of the hunt, whose gentle arrows bring sudden painless death. Calypso cites her killing of Orion on Ortygia as proof that the gods begrudge a goddess her mortal lover; elsewhere in the poem she is the standard of comparison for both Nausicaa and Penelope.