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Hera then grabbed Artemis' hands by the wrists, and holding her in place, beat her with her own bow. [261] Crying, Artemis left her bow and arrows where they lay and ran to Olympus to cry at her father Zeus' knees, while her mother Leto picked up her bow and arrows and followed her weeping daughter. [262]
Artemis's bow, a silver bow wielded by Artemis. Eros's bow, a bow wielded by Eros that could cause one to love or hate the person they first saw after being struck. Heracles's bow, which also belonged to Philoctetes, its arrows had been dipped in the blood of the Lernaean Hydra, which made them instantly lethal. Eurytus' bow, Eurytus became so ...
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.
It represents Artemis with the bow at one extremity, Luna-Selene with flowers at the other and a central deity not immediately identifiable, all united by a horizontal bar. The iconographical analysis allows the dating of this image to the 6th century at which time there are Etruscan models.
Artemis (7 C, 21 P) E. Eros (3 C, 14 P) H. Heracles (6 C, 28 P) Pages in category "Mythological Greek archers" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 ...
The statue depicts Artemis, the Greek goddess of hunting and wild animals amongst other things. She stands on a simple plinth in a pose that suggests she has just released an arrow from her bow. At some point in its history, the bow was separated from the sculpture and was lost. The goddess's hair is wavy and parted, gathered at the back in a ...
Callimachus has the Cyclopes make Artemis' bow, arrows and quiver, just as they had (apparently) made those of Apollo. [87] Callimachus locates the Cyclopes on the island of Lipari , the largest of the Aeolian Islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the northern coast of Sicily , where Artemis finds them "at the anvils of Hephaestus" making a horse ...
Leto picks up Artemis's discarded bow and arrows and runs after her crying daughter. [72] According to a scholium on the Iliad that claims to report Theagenes 's interpretation of the gods' battle, Hermes here represents reason and rationality ( λόγος , "logos") as opposed to Leto, who stands in for forgetfulness ( λήθη , "lethe ...