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Artemis
Artemis
Biographical Information
Name: Artemis
Goddess: Moon
Hunt
Wilderness
Home: Olympus
Family:

Zeus (Father)
Leto (Mother)
Apollo (Twin Brother)
Hercules (Half-Brother)

Descendant:

Atlanta

Husband:

Orion

Weapon:

Bow and Arrows

Abilities:

Superstrength
Teleportation
Superagility
Superior archery
superior hunting skills

Physical Description
Gender: Female
Hair color: Light orange
Eye color: Green
Height: 5'8
Character Information
First appearance: Chaos 101
Portrayed by: Patricia Drake
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Characters Female Immortals Goddess Heros Olympian Ancestors Season One Season Two

Artemis is the Greek Goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, wild animals, the Moon, and chastity. She is the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. Much like Athena and Hesti, Artemis preferred to remain a maiden and is sworn never to marry. Artemis' symbols included a bow and arrow, a quiver and hunting knives. She is the mentor of Atlanta.

Throughout the Series[]

Season One

Season Two

Eris spreads discord among both The Heroes and The Gods. Causing Athena and Artemis to get into a fight, among other things.

Cronus sets Orion after Atlanta for revenge on Artemis. After being attacked in the forest, the team splits up, with the boys to track down the Orion, and the girls to catch the missing Cassie, and wipe her memory.

Jay realizes Orion is missing from the constellations. Artemis admits the connection between her and Orion and fears that he might take revenge on Atlanta if he knows she was special to her. The team goes back to the woods for further investigation.

Orion captures Cassie in the woods, with the heroes on her trail. Herry takes on Orion in an effort to save Cassie, Archie and Theresa try next, but Orion's target is Atlanta. She outruns all the arrows he shoots and makes him chase her through the woods. She refuses to sell out Artemis, but shows him his engagement gift and explains Artemis' mistake, and how she was tricked into killing him. Orion sends his well-wishes to Artemis and returns to the stars.

Appearance[]

Season One

Season Two

Trivia[]

  • In mythology, Atlanta's ancestor Atalanta was a devotee of Artemis who was raised by a bear (one of her symbols) and later modeled herself after the goddess.
  • She seems to have a slight New York accent and bears a resemblance to Atlanta.
  • She and Atlanta, are both great hunters and skilled in archery.
  • She is a decisive and straight-forward woman who seems to have limited patience and enjoys competition.

Mythology[]

Artemis is the Greek Goddess of the hunt, the Moon, and chastity. She is the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. Her symbols included the golden bow and arrow, the hunting dog, the stag, and the Moon. She was the patron and protector of young girls and was believed to bring disease upon women 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 is sworn never to marry.

Hera was angry with her husband Zeus because he had impregnated Leto. Artemis, while sitting on the knee of her father, Zeus, asked him to grant her ten wishes:

- Always remain a virgin
- Have many names to set her apart from her brother Apollo
- Have a bow and arrow made by the Cyclopes
- Be the Phaesporia or Light Bringer
- Have a knee-length tunic so that she could hunt
- Have sixty "daughters of Okeanos", all nine years of age, to be her choir
- Have twenty Amnisides Nymphs as handmaidens to watch her dogs and bow while she rested to rule all the mountains of any city
- Have the ability to help women in the pains of childbirth.

Artemis believed that she had been chosen by The Fates to be a midwife, particularly since she had assisted her mother in the delivery of Apollo. All of her companions remained virgins, and Artemis closely guarded her own chastity. Artemis spent her girlhood seeking out the things that she would need to be a huntress, how she obtained her bow and arrows from the isle of Lipara, where Hephaestus and the Cyclops worked. The young Artemis bravely approached and asked for bow and arrows. Artemis visited Pan, the god of the forest, who gave her seven female and six male dogs. She then captured six golden-horned deer to pull her chariot. Artemis practiced with her bow first by shooting at trees and then at wild beasts.

As a virgin, Artemis had interested many gods and men, but only her hunting companion, Orion, won her heart. Artemis sent a wild boar to kill Adonis as punishment for his hubristic boast that he was a better hunter than her, and /or, Adonis had been related as a favorite of Aphrodite, and Aphrodite was responsible for the death of Hippolytus, who had been a favorite of Artemis. Therefore, Artemis killed Adonis to avenge Hippolytus's death.

Artemis' temple at Ephesus was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Artemis and Orion
Artemis was challenged to hit an impossible target by her brother, Apollo, (who was "protective" of his sister's maidenhood) which was Orion's head, swimming away. She shot an arrow and struck her target. When she realized it was Orion, she was heartbroken that she couldn't save him. Apollo then help her place Orion in the stars so she would never forget him. There are some stories which say that Atalanta is her and Orion's daughter.

The Aloadae
The twin sons of Poseidon, Otos and Ephialtes, grew enormously at a young age. They were aggressive, great hunters, and could not be killed unless by each other. The growth of the Aloadae never stopped, and they boasted that as soon as they could reach heaven, they would kidnap Artemis and Hera and take them as wives. The Gods were afraid of them, except for Artemis changed herself into a doe and jumped out between them. The Aloadae threw their spears and so mistakenly killed each other.

Callisto
Callisto was the daughter of King Lycan and one of Artemis's hunting attendants. As a companion, she took a vow of chastity. Zeus appeared to her disguised as Apollo gained her confidence and raped her. As a result, she conceived a son, Arcas.

Enraged, Hera & Artemis changed her into a bear. Arcas almost killed the bear, but Zeus stopped him just in time. Out of pity, Zeus placed Callisto the bear into the heavens, thus the origin of Callisto the Bear as a constellation.

The Trojan War
Artemis may have been represented as a supporter of Troy because her brother Apollo was the patron god of the city and she herself was widely worshipped. She came to blows with Hera, when the divine allies of the Greeks and Trojans engaged each other in conflict. Hera struck Artemis on the ears with her own quiver, causing the arrows to fall out. As Artemis fled crying to Zeus, Leto gathered up the bow and arrows.

Artemis played quite a large part in this war. Like her mother and brother, who was widely worshipped at Troy, Artemis took the side of the Trojans. At the Greek's journey to Troy, Artemis punished Agamemnon after he killed a sacred stag in a sacred grove and boasted that he was a better hunter than the goddess. When the Greek fleet was preparing at Aulis to depart for Troy to begin the Trojan War, Artemis becalmed the winds. The seer Calchas advised Agamemnon that the only way to appease Artemis was to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia. Artemis snatched Iphigenia from the altar and substituted a deer. After, Artemis either made Iphigenia her attendant or turned her into Hecate, goddess of night, witchcraft, and the underworld.

Atalanta, Oeneus and the Meleagrids
Artemis saved the infant Atalanta from dying of exposure after her father abandoned her. She sent a female bear to suckle the baby, who was then raised by hunters.

Atalanta participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar, which Artemis had sent to destroy Calydon because King Oeneus had forgotten her at the harvest sacrifices. In the hunt, Atalanta drew the first blood and was awarded the prize of the skin. She hung it in a sacred grove at Tegea as a dedication to Artemis.

Aura
Aura was a virgin huntress, just like Artemis and proud of her maidenhood. One day, she claimed that the body of Artemis was too womanly and she doubted her virginity. Artemis asked Nemesis for help to avenge her dignity and caused the rape of Aura by Dionysus. Aura became a mad and dangerous killer. When she bore twin sons, she ate one of them while the other one, Iacchus, was saved by Artemis. Iacchus later became an attendant of Demeter and the leader of Eleusinian Mysteries.

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