13 She was more especially the protectress of the young, whence the epithets παιδοτρόφος ( paidotrophos), κουροτρόφος ( koyrotrophos see Curotrophos), and φιλομεῖραξ ( philomeirax) 14 and Aeschylus 15 calls her the protectress of young sucking-animals, and of the game ranging through the forests of the mountains. The man whom she looked graciously upon was prosperous in his fields and flocks, his household was thriving, and he died in old age. ![]() 12 In the Trojan war she sided, like Apollo, with the Trojans. Thus, for instance, she healed Aeneas, when he was wounded and carried into the temple of Apollo. 11Īs Apollo was not only a destructive god, but also averted the evils which it was in his power to inflict, so Artemis was at the same time a δεα σώτειρα ( dea sōteira) that is, she cured and alleviated the sufferings of mortals. 10 She also acts sometimes in conjunction with her brother. Sudden deaths, but more especially those of women, are described as the effect of her arrows. 9 In the character of sister of Apollo, Artemis is like her brother armed with a bow, quiver, and arrows, and sends plague and death among men and animals: she is a δεὰ ἀπόλλουσα ( dea apollousa). This relation between the two is in many other cases described as the relation of husband and wife, and there seems to have been a tradition which actually described Artemis as the wife of Apollo. Artemis as the sister of Apollo, is a kind of female Apollo, that is, she as a female divinity represented the same idea that Apollo did as a male divinity. ![]() 8 In the description of the nature and character of this goddess, it is necessary to distinguish between the different points of view from which the Greeks regarded her, and also between the really Greek Artemis and certain foreign divinities, who for some resemblance or another were identified by the Greeks with their own Artemis.ġ. The place of her birth is for the same reason not the same in all traditions: some say that it was the grove of Ortygia near Ephesus, 6 others that it was Crete, 7 and others again, that she was the sister of Apollo, but born somewhat earlier, so that she was able to assist Leto in giving birth to Apollo. But these and some other legends are only the results of the identification of the Greek Artemis with other local or foreign divinities. ![]() According to a tradition which Pausanias 4 found in Aeschylus, Artemis was a daughter of Demeter, and not of Leto, while according to an Egyptian story 5 she was the daughter of Dionysus and Isis, and Leto was only her nurse. She was the sister of Apollo, and born with him at the same time in the island of Delos. 1 According to the Homeric account and Hesiod 2 she was the daughter of Zeus and Leto, whence Aeschylus 3 calls her λητωγένεια ( lētōgeneia). Her name is usually derived from ἀρτεμής ( artemēs), uninjured, healthy, vigorous according to which she would be the goddess who is herself inviolate and vigorous, and also grants strength and health to others. One of the great divinities of the Greeks.
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