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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 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 ...
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.
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Like Artemis, Diana is usually depicted in art wearing a women's chiton, shortened in the kolpos style to facilitate mobility during hunting, with a hunting bow and quiver, and often accompanied by hunting dogs.
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 ...
Her left hand is positioned to hold a bow, and, like with Artemis A, evidence of a bronze circle attached to her thumb indicates that she held a phial in her right hand. Here, rather than the two straps that cross around Artemis A's chest, only one strap crosses over the figure's right shoulder and under her left arm, supporting part of the ...