"In the Iliad he [Homer] represented Athena and Enyo as supreme in war, and Artemis feared in childbirth, and Aphrodite heeding the affairs of marriage."
Artemis and Aphrodite had a rivalry that was not no secret. Aphrodite hated that Artemis had some people who believed in the virgin goddess who stay single and don't fall in love. So the goddess of love and beauty would target those who follow Artemis and kill or make them fall in love.
According to one story, Artemis loved the giant huntsman Orion and lived with him in the forest. Eventually, Artemis became jealous. She thought that Orion loved another woman. In revenge, Artemis shot Orion with an arrow.
III. ARTEMIS FIGHTS WITH HERA. After the death of Patroklos, Akhilleus' returned to the war, and Zeus again allowed the gods to return to Troy in support of their favourites. The divine factions then broke out into open conflict: Artemis stood against Hera and was beaten by the goddess.
The goddess is angry that Agamemnon the king will kill his own daughter, Iphigeneia, by performing a perverted human sacrifice. And she hates this act of killing.
"In the Iliad he [Homer] represented Athena and Enyo as supreme in war, and Artemis feared in childbirth, and Aphrodite heeding the affairs of marriage."
Artemis' Weaknesses
She does, however, have a few. Her primary weaknesses are her lack of mercy and her pride. There are several versions of the death of her friend, Orion, but all seem to lead back to Artemis being his killer, either directly or indirectly.
Full of anguish and regret, the goddess took Orion's body using her silver moon chariot and placed her lover in the sky as a tribute to her friend who bears the same name, the Orion constellation. The story of the tragedy between them spread across Crete.
Another common cause of Artemis' vengeance was betrayal. Callisto, one of Artemis' virginal companions, committed such a crime. Callisto was seduced by Zeus, undetected by the other Greek gods. It was only when Callisto was already with child and was seen bathing by the goddess, that the deception was discovered.
Chione was a princess of Pokis. She was beloved by two gods, Hermes and Apollo, and boasted that she was more beautiful than Artemis because she had made two gods fall in love with her at once. Artemis was furious and killed Chione with an arrow, or struck her mute by shooting off her tongue.
One of Artemis' best friends was the giant hunter Orion. The two friends loved to hunt together.
The moon, hunting, wild animals, bows and arrows, children and disease are all associated with the goddess Artemis. Dislikes: Unloyal hunters, hunting for fun, men who watch her bathe.
Voiced by. Jason Bard was a United States Marine and is now a private detective in Star City. He owns a dog named Holly and is dating Artemis Crock.
There is at least one myth that makes it explicit that she shared a degree of physical intimacy with one of her nymphs, Callisto.
Siproites, while hunting, saw Artemis bathing naked; in response to the offence, the virgin goddess turned him into a woman: The Cretan, Siproites, had also been turned into a woman for having seen Artemis bathing when out hunting.
She was one of only three unmarried virgin goddesses in the Greek world. The others were Athena, the goddess of war, and Hestia, the goddess of the hearth. Although Artemis did not have any children of her own, she protected women during pregnancy and during childbirth.
There are lots of versions of the Iphigenia myth, but the basic version starts when the Greek leader Agamemnon, while preparing his fleet to sail to Troy, accidentally kills a deer in a grove that is sacred to Artemis, the goddess of the hunt. She punishes him by foiling his fleet's plans.
The story of Oedipus is perhaps the most tragic story of ancient Greece. The mythological character was the king of Thebes and lived under the shadow of a curse that could not be avoided to the end of his days.
Artemis and Apollo remained close to each other forever. Both siblings would become associated with the skill of archery, and they enjoyed hunting together. In addition, both had the power to send plagues upon mortals.
Though known for her innocence and purity, Artemis had a great capacity for violence and cruelty. She fiercely defended her virginity and her reputation as the greatest of hunters. In fact, the bulk of Artemis' mythos relates to her colorful punishments of those who offended her or her family.
Strengths/talents: Physically strong, able to defend herself, defender and guardian of women in childbirth and of wildlife in general. Weaknesses/flaws/quirks: Dislikes men, who she sometimes orders torn apart if they see her bathing.
As goddess of wisdom and war, and protector of Athens and heroes, Athena has little to fear. In mythology, she is immensely powerful and immortal, but in The Odyssey the story of her contest with Poseidon reveals her only fear. This is the fear of being defeated.
Artemis, 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. Artemis was the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo. Among the rural populace, Artemis was the favourite goddess.