Artemis
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"ARTEMIS, one of the great divinities of the Greeks. Her name is usually
derived from artemês, 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. (Plat. Cratyl. p. 406, b. ; Strab. xiv. p. 635; Eustath. ad Hom. pp. 32, 577, 1732.) According to the Homeric account and Hesiod (Theog. 918) she was the daughter of Zeus and Leto, whence Aeschylus (Sept. 148) calls
her lêtôgeneia. She was the sister of Apollo, and born with him at the same time
in the island of Delos. According to a tradition which Pausanias (viii. 37. § 3)
found in Aeschylus, Artemis was a daughter of Demeter, and not of Leto, while
according to an Egyptian story (Herod. ii. 156) she was the daughter of Dionysus
and Isis, and Leto was only her nurse. But these and some other legends are only
the results of the identification of the Greek Artemis with other local or
foreign divinities. 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
(Tacit. Annal. iii. 61; Schol. ad Pind. Nem. i. 1), others that it was Crete
(Diod. v. 72), 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.
(Orph Hymn. 34. 5; Spanheim, ad Callim. p. 476, &c.)
1. Artemis was 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. 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. (Eustath. ad Hom. p.
1197.) 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. Sudden deaths, but more especially those of women,
are described as the effect of her arrows. (Hom. Il. vi. 205, 427,
&c., xix. 59, xxi. 483, &c.; Od. xi. 172, &c., 324, xv. 478,
xviii. 202, xx. 61, &c., v. 124, &c.) She also acts sometimes in
conjunction with her brother. (Od. xv. 410; Il. xxiv. 606.)
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derived from artemês, 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. (Plat. Cratyl. p. 406, b. ; Strab. xiv. p. 635; Eustath. ad Hom. pp. 32, 577, 1732.) According to the Homeric account and Hesiod (Theog. 918) she was the daughter of Zeus and Leto, whence Aeschylus (Sept. 148) calls
her lêtôgeneia. She was the sister of Apollo, and born with him at the same time
in the island of Delos. According to a tradition which Pausanias (viii. 37. § 3)
found in Aeschylus, Artemis was a daughter of Demeter, and not of Leto, while
according to an Egyptian story (Herod. ii. 156) she was the daughter of Dionysus
and Isis, and Leto was only her nurse. But these and some other legends are only
the results of the identification of the Greek Artemis with other local or
foreign divinities. 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
(Tacit. Annal. iii. 61; Schol. ad Pind. Nem. i. 1), others that it was Crete
(Diod. v. 72), 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.
(Orph Hymn. 34. 5; Spanheim, ad Callim. p. 476, &c.)
1. Artemis was 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. 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. (Eustath. ad Hom. p.
1197.) 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. Sudden deaths, but more especially those of women,
are described as the effect of her arrows. (Hom. Il. vi. 205, 427,
&c., xix. 59, xxi. 483, &c.; Od. xi. 172, &c., 324, xv. 478,
xviii. 202, xx. 61, &c., v. 124, &c.) She also acts sometimes in
conjunction with her brother. (Od. xv. 410; Il. xxiv. 606.)
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