Artemis

=‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍﻿**__Artemis __**=

Artemis is the daughter of Leto and Zeus, twin of Apollo (god of music, poetry, plague, oracles, sun, medicine, light, and

knowledge). Artemis is the goddess of wilderness, the hunt and wild animals, and fertility. Artemis, a eternally young women,

usually dressed in knee length chiton so you could move freely while hunting. This was short compared to the full length

chitons normally worn buy women from her time. She would often have her bow and a pack of hounds with her.

Artemis would also wear a lunar crescent on her forehead. Artemis was tall, slim, lovely dressed in a short tunic. Her chiton was

pulled by silver stags. Artemis had the strengths of independent, courage, confidenence, and strength. Also the other goddesses

didn't have control for reasons like of her lack of love (Aphrodite). With all of these she also had some major weaknesses. She

was vengeful, impulsive and aloof. She, like most of the other gods, couldn't handle being beat and would go through get lengths

to get revenge if she did get beat. ‍‍‍‍‍‍ __**MYTHS:** __
 * In one myth she was born one day before Apollo and she was born on the island of Ortygia, then almost exactly after her birth she helped Leto cross the straights of Delos, where she delivered Apollo. This was the start of her role as gaurdian of young children and patron of women in childbirth.


 * In another myth Artemis, associated with chastity, at the age of the 3 years old (in one legend) asked her father, Zeus, to grant her eternal virginity and all of her companions were virgins.Artemis was very protective of her purity and gave punishment to anyone who attempted to disrespect her in any form. Actaeon was hunting, when he came upon Artemis and her nymphs that were bathing and Artemis saw Actaeon looking. So Artemis turned Actaeon into a stag and set Actaeons own hounds upon him. They chased and killed what the hounds thought were another stag.


 * Artemis was very possessive. She would show anger on anyone who disobeyed her wishes, defiantly against her sacred animals. In another myth, when hero Agamemnon killed her sacred grove, she punished him when his ships were becalmed, while Agamemnon made his way to besiege Troy. With no winds to sail his ships he was told by the Calchas that the only way Artemis would bring back the winds was for him to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigen. Some versions say Agamemnon actually sacrifice Iphigenia, others that Artemis exchanged a deer in her place, and took Iphigenia to the land of the Tauri as a priestess, to prepare strangers for sacrifice to Artemis.