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  2. Artemis - Wikipedia

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    Artemis (left) and Apollo try to get the Ceryneian Hind from Heracles. Detail of an Attic black-figure amphora c. 530–520 BCE. Louvre, Paris . The myths also differ as to whether Artemis was born first, or Apollo. Most stories depict Artemis as firstborn, becoming her mother's midwife upon the birth of her brother Apollo.

  3. Apollo - Wikipedia

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    Apollo Delphinios or Delphidios was a sea-god worshipped especially in Crete and in the islands. [85] Apollo's sister Artemis, who was the Greek goddess of hunting, is identified with Britomartis (Diktynna), the Minoan "Mistress of the animals". In her earliest depictions she was accompanied by the "Master of the animals", a bow-wielding god of ...

  4. Leto - Wikipedia

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    There Leto, clinging to an olive tree, bore Apollo and Artemis after four days. [47] According to the Homeric Hymn and the Orphic Hymn 35 to Leto, Artemis was born on the island of Ortygia before Apollo was on Delos. [48] Stephanus of Byzantium also states that Artemis was born before Apollo, however he claims that she was born at Coressus. [49]

  5. Twelve Olympians - Wikipedia

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    The son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis. His symbols include bow and arrow, lyre, raven, swan and wolf. Artemis: Diana: Goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, virginity, the Moon, archery, childbirth, protection and plague. The daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo.

  6. Delos - Wikipedia

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    Between 900 BC and 100 AD, Delos was a major cult centre, where the gods Dionysus and Leto, mother of the twin deities Apollo and Artemis, were revered. Eventually acquiring Panhellenic religious significance, Delos was initially a religious pilgrimage for the Ionians.

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  8. Callisto (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Artemis (seated and wearing a radiate crown), the beautiful nymph Callisto (left), Eros and other nymphs. Antique fresco from Pompeii. In Greek mythology, Callisto (/ k ə ˈ l ɪ s t oʊ /; Ancient Greek: Καλλιστώ Greek pronunciation: [kallistɔ̌ː]) was a nymph, or the daughter of King Lycaon; the myth varies in such details.

  9. From Apollo to Artemis, Kennedy Space Center celebrates 60 ...

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    Kennedy Space Center officials hope 60th anniversary will see launch of powerful new moon rocket.