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Diana's mythology incorporated stories which were variants of earlier stories about Artemis. Possibly the most well-known of these is the myth of Actaeon. In Ovid's version of this myth, part of his poem Metamorphoses, he tells of a pool or grotto hidden in the wooded valley of Gargaphie. There, Diana, the goddess of the woods, would bathe and ...
Diana, goddess of the hunt, the moon, virginity, and childbirth, twin sister of Apollo and one of the Dii Consentes. Diana Nemorensis, local version of Diana. The Roman equivalent of Artemis [Greek goddess] Discordia, personification of discord and strife. The Roman equivalent of Eris [Greek goddess] Dius Fidius, god of oaths, associated with ...
Diana (mythology) Roman goddess of hunting and the wild. Diana [lower-alpha 1] is a goddess in Roman and Hellenistic religion, primarily considered a patroness of the countryside and nature, hunters, wildlife, childbirth, crossroads, the night, and the Moon.
Articles relating to the Roman goddess Diana, goddess of the hunt, wild animals, fertility, and the moon. She is the Roman equivalent to the Greek goddess Artemis . Subcategories
A goddess suckling a toddler and seated in the wicker chair characteristic of Gallo-Roman goddesses (2nd or 3rd century, Bordeaux) Lucina as a title of the birth goddess is usually seen as a metaphor for bringing the newborn into the light (lux, lucis). [59] Luces, plural ("lights"), can mean "periods of light, daylight hours, days."
The names Phoebe and Phoebus (masculine) came to be applied as synonyms for Artemis/Diana and Apollo respectively, [8] as well as for Luna and Sol, the lunar goddess and the solar god, by the Roman poets; the late-antiquity grammarian Servius writes that "Phoebe is Luna, like Phoebus is Sol." [9] Phoebe was, like Artemis, identified by Roman ...
The team behind RMS Titanic, Inc. has released new photos of the shipwreck after the goddess statue, "Diana of Versailles," was rediscovered. Decay of the shipwreck was also captured.
Iana is the name of an ancient Roman goddess associated with arches and the moon, usually identified as either a form of Diana or the female counterpart of Janus.. Varro (1st century BC) uses the name in his agricultural treatise, in a passage of dialogue in which the interlocutors explain that some farming tasks should be done when the moon is waxing, while the waning phase facilitates others ...