Artemis

Great Huntress, She of the Golden Shafts, Lady of the Gold Arrows, Successor of Selene, Mistress of Animals, Sapphic Goddess

## Relationships

### Ancestors

Khaos (Progenitor)
Ouranos (Ancestor)
Gaia (Ancestor)
Kronos (Grandfather)
Coeus (Grandfather)
Rhea (Grandmother)
Phoebe (Grandmother)

### Parents

Zeus (Father)
Leto (Mother)

### Siblings

Apollo (Twin Brother)
**Paternal Half-Siblings**
Persephone, Hephaestus, Athena, Ares, Hermes, Dionysus...

## Personal Status

### Groups

Twelve Olympians (8th)
Hunters of Artemis (Head)

### Affliations

Mount Olympus
Olympian Deities
Greco-Roman Deities
Greco-Roman Pantheon

### Abilities

**Ethereal Energy*** Light Manipulation
* Lunar Manipulation
* Supernatural Archery

### Power Scale

**Rank**: EX-Ranked
**Class**: God-Class

## Portrayal

### English VA

Avery Smithhart

**Artemis**, also called **Diana**, is the Goddess of the Moon, Archery, and Wilderness from Greco-Roman Mythology. As one of the Twelve Olympians, she is a ruler of Mount Olympus with immense authority over the Greco-Roman Pantheon.

She is the head and leader of an elite group of all-female hunters known as the **Hunters of Artemis**.

## Overview

**Artemis** is the Greek goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, wild animals, the Moon, and chastity. The goddess Diana is her Roman equivalent.

Artemis is the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. She was the patron and protector of young children and women, and was believed to both bring disease upon women and children and relieve them of it. Artemis was worshipped as one of the primary goddesses of childbirth and midwifery along with Eileithyia. Much like Athena and Hestia, Artemis preferred to remain a maiden and was sworn never to marry.

Artemis was one of the most widely venerated of the Ancient Greek deities, and her temple at Ephesus was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Artemis' symbols included a bow and arrow, a quiver, and hunting knives, and the deer and the cypress were sacred to her. Diana, her Roman equivalent, was especially worshipped on the Aventine Hill in Rome, near Lake Nemi in the Alban Hills, and in Campania.

## Appearance

Artemis appears as a beautiful teenage girl, with smooth skin and a voluptuous figure, and her breasts in particular are noted to be the same size as Hera and Demeter, two Gods of Motherhood. She has emerald-green eyes and long blue hair with two long bangs, two strands on the sides, and a partly braided tail in the back.

She wore a white-and-blue outfit, long brown boots with a light-brown design, and a belt attached to a sash of white silken cloth with a dagger attached to it. She also wears golden bracelets and various golden hair accessories.

## Personality

Artemis is a focused, reserved, and reasonable goddess, but can be extremely stoic and pragmatic. She doesn't frequently lose her temper and speaks calmly with others, though she can easily be irritated by men. She prefers the company of her huntresses and animals to even that of other gods, passing most of her time hunting in the wilderness. She possesses a deep caring for young children, especially for maidens who she presides over.

Unlike her family, she is less easy-going and more understanding of humanity than the majority of gods, much like her half-brother Hermes. She is among the more sympathetic and selfless Olympian gods, weighting individuals by their actions and choices as opposed to their potential.

However, she is known to be quite sneaky and sometimes pranks her twin brother, or helps him and Hermes prank other gods with her tracking and stealth skills.

Though rarely, she can be very childish and immature much like other gods, often acting out her anger whenever her wishes are disobeyed, her authority is ignored by mortals, or when she doesn't get what she wants. She is very prideful, a trait she inherited from her father Zeus, and another bad trait of hers is that she had major difficulty admitting she loses.

Similar to her father, she is a natural flirt, though most of her flirtatious actions seem to be purely accidental rather than intentional, which some see her as a womanizing goddess much to her confusion.

## Trivia

* She and her twin share the same birthday on May 24th.
* Her attributes are a silver bow, arrows, and the crescent moon (or the full moon).
	+ Her sacred animals are the deers, stags, bears, guinea fowl, bee, snakes and hunting dogs.
	+ Her sacred plants are hazel, ranunculus, honeysuckle, thistle, fir and cypress.
* The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
	+ In the temple, she is worshiped as a multi-breasts mother goddess similar to that of the Anatolian earth goddess Cybele, though this might have been a case of syncretism, or *interpretatio graeca*.
* She shares jurisdiction over childbirth and midwifery with her half-sister Eileithyia.
* She has a collection of furs belonging to many creatures, some of which may be extinct.
* In Homer's "Iliad", she is referred to as *potnia thērōn* (“mistress of beasts”), referring to her role as a hunter and protector of wild creatures.
* Though she is said to be the protector of young women, she is said to have been appeased of crimes by the sacrifice of young women, such as Agamemnon's daughter, Iphigenia.
	+ However, some versions say Artemis took Iphigenia from the pyre seconds before it was lit without Agamemnon or his men being aware. Artemis could have only pretended to want young women sacrificed while secretly rescuing them, not just from the pyres but from whatever society they lived in.
* According to one source, Artemis was born a day before Apollo and then served as a guardian to him, which provided a context for her desire to protect and nurture.
* It is theorized that she might originally be worshiped as a bear goddess.
* Ancient Greek tradition held that Artemis and Apollo were born on the sixth and seventh day of Thargelion, the eleventh month in the Athenian calendar, and the Thargelia festival was held every year to commemorate the occasion.
* One source says Zeus put Orion in the stars at Artemis' request.
* In mythology, despite being believed to be the one who brought disease upon women, she was also believed to be the one who relieved them of it.
* In myth, the sole reason Artemis was sometimes considered a goddess of the moon was because others perceived her to be either Selene or Hecate.
* A minor planet, (105) Artemis, a lunar crater, the Artemis Chasma and the Artemis Corona (both on Venus) have all been named after her.
	+ NASA announced that their [wikipedia:Artemis program|mission to the moon]] in 2024 would be named after her.
	+ Diana, a crater on the moon, is named after her Roman name.
	+ 78 Diana, an asteroid, is named after her Roman name.