Artemis- Goddess of the moon, wilderness, hunt & wild

animals, and fertility.

• By: Tamara Brisibe

Chastity
When Artemis was at a very young
age, (it was said in one legend that
she was 3) she asked her
father(Zeus) to grant her eternal
Chastity.

All of Artemis’s companions were

virgins as well, Artemis was very
respectful and protective of her
purity, and threatened any man
that tried to test that.
In one legend, when Actaeon was
hunting, he accidentally came upon
Artemis and her nyphms bathing in
a secluded pool. When Actaeon saw
them and stopped to watch,
Artemis caught him and turned him
into a stag. Then she turned his
own hounds upon him, which they
chased and killed him, not knowing
it was their master.
More about
Artemis
Daughter of Leto and Zeus,
twin of Apollo.

Artemis was born one day

Leto Zeus
before her brother, almost
immediately after she was
born, she helped her mom
cross the straits over to
Delos. Where her mom
delivered Apollo. This was
the beginning of her role as
guardian over young
children, and patron over
women in child birth. Apollo
 Artemis Legends

• Artemis was very possessive and showed wrath upon any one that disobeyed her,
some examples are of:
• . The great Agamemnon came upon the wrath of Artemis when he killed a stag in
Artemis’s sacred grove. His punishment was when he was sailing to Troy and there
were no winds to sail with to get there, the only way Artemis said she would bring
the winds back was if Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia. Some legends
say Agamemnon did sacrifice her, and others say Artemis exchanged a deer in her
place, because of Iphigenia’s bravery and took Iphigenia to the land of Tauri as a
priestess to prepare strangers for sacrifice to Artemis.
• Talking more about Artemis’s chastity, when Orion tried to rape her she conjured
up a scorpion which killed Orion and his dog, Orion became a constellation in the
night sky, while his dog became Sirius the dog star.
• Also, one of Artemis’s nymphs was approached by Zeus(Zeus came in one of his
guises and came as Artemis and Callisto gave birth to Arcas, Artemis became
enraged, even when Callisto tried to explain that she was unwillingly tricked,
Artemis still showed no mercy, turned her into a bear, and shot and killed her.
 Artemis’s Involvement in the
Trojan War
• Artemis may have been considered a supporter of the Trojans because
her twin brother Apollo, was the patron god of the city.
• During the Trojan was, Artemis had an encounter with Hera(technically
her step-mom). Apollo (her twin brother) was bragging about how he
could beat Poseidon anytime, because Apollo was always bragging,
Poseidon decided during the Trojan War would be the best time. When
Apollo said “he wouldn’t want to lay a hand on his brother from his own
father.” Artemis confronted her younger brother saying she shouldn’t
brag in her own fathers house, this was when Hera verbally attacked her
while grabbing her wrists and taking Artemis’s arrows from her sack, and
hitting Artemis on it with her ears, Artemis ran away leaving her bows
behind. This was not one of her bravest moments.
 Artemis
The end of Artemis…there really was no end to her, for
she was immortal. She was worshiped in the Greek
City, and also b the Trojans. Since she was he goddess
f fertility, before women go married, the worshipped
her in a temple, before they got married. Although
Artemis did not die, she was forgotten, along with
other Gods when Rome converted t Christianity in
313AD. Her myths and legends still live on.
 Bibliography
• Trojan War

• http://www.theoi.com/Olympios/Artemis.html