ARTEMIS in Greek mythology is the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo. In Greek religion she is concerned with the transitions of birth and growing up of both genders, as well as with the death of women and with the spaces outside...

in Greek religion, the goddess of wild animals, the hunt, and vegetation, and of chastity and childbirth; she was identified by the Romans with Diana (q.v.). Artemis was the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo. Among the rural...

Greek goddess of the hunt, who can be shown to share in the functions of several other divinities. She is Queen of the wild beasts (Potnia theron) in which capacity she can be traced back to the Minoan period. Graphically, she is represented as winged...

The name of a Greek goddess, used by Alec D’Urberville to Tess in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles. ‘He called her Artemis, Demeter, and other fanciful names half teasingly, which she did not like because she did not...

In Greek religion, the goddess of wild animals, the hunt, vegetation, chastity, and childbirth. Artemis was the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo. Accompanied by nymphs, she danced in mountains and forests. She both killed game...

In Greek mythology, Artemis (Greek: (nominative) á¼ρτεμις, (genitive) á¼ρτέμιδος) was the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo. She was usually depicted as the maiden goddess of the hunt, bearing a bow and arrows....