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Artemis regularly appears in modern adaptations of Greek mythology, such as the Percy Jackson and the Olympians book series by Rick Riordan and the God of War video game series. She is also featured in the 1990s TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.
Mythology Origins. Leto was the daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe. Though her parentage is clear, her place of birth was a source of debate in antiquity: some sources said she was born on the island of Cos in the southeast Aegean, while others insisted that she came from the mysterious northern land of the Hyperboreans.
It does not appear in the Linear B tablets, the earliest surviving texts of Greek civilization, written in a syllabic script during the Greek Bronze Age (ca. 1600–1100 BCE). However, this does not necessarily mean that Apollo was a late addition to the Greek pantheon: the name Paean, one of Apollo’s most common alternate names, does show up ...
Orion was a mortal hunter of remarkable size and strength, as well as a highly prolific lover. The myths surrounding Orion were often contradictory, though most sources agree he was killed by a god (usually Artemis or Gaia) due to his violent and insolent tendencies. He was turned into a constellation after his death.
Diana was also associated with the underworld and liminal zones—the boundaries separating the living from the dead and the wild from the civilized. Though she was a Roman goddess, much of Diana’s mythology and personality originated elsewhere. Diana was heavily based on Artemis, the Greek goddess of hunting and nature.
Callimachus: Atalanta and her relationship with Artemis is mentioned in Callimachus’ Hymn to Artemis (third century BCE). Strabo, Geography: A late first-century BCE geographical treatise and an important source for many local Greek myths, institutions, and religious practices from antiquity.
Through her sister Leto, Asteria was the aunt of the Olympians Apollo and Artemis; like them, she was sometimes associated with celestial bodies (her name is related to the Greek word for “star”). Some mythological sources tell of how Asteria was loved by Zeus and/or Poseidon. Wanting to escape these voracious gods, she transformed herself ...
But the Greek cult of Selene grew more and more prevalent towards the end of the Hellenistic period (323–31 BCE). Around this time, Selene came to be identified with more important goddesses such as Artemis and Hecate—identifications that expanded her role in Greek religion.
Mythology. Like many Titans, Phoebe seldom appeared in Greek texts. Her role in the Titanomachy and its aftermath, for example, is unsung and unknown. Hesiod’s Theogony, the most complete source for Greek myths on the origins of the cosmos, mentions her only twice. She first appears in a list of the children of Gaia and Uranus; according to ...
The prophet Calchas soon revealed the reason: Agamemnon had offended the goddess Artemis (either by killing one of her sacred deer, boasting that he was a better hunter than she, or simply happening to be the future conqueror of Artemis’ beloved Troy). In order to placate her, Agamemnon was ordered to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia ...