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Artemis is the goddess of the hunt and animals, as well as of childbirth. She is also known as Diana (Roman). Her attributes in iconography include the bow and the fawn. She often appears with her brother, Apollo.

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Texts

Birth

• Apollodorus 1.4.2

• Hesiod: Theogony 920

Domain

• Pausanias 4.30.5

• Homeric Hymn 5.1

• Homeric Hymn 9.1

• Homeric Hymn 27.1

• Homeric Hymn 3a.1

• Homer: Iliad 6.414

• Homer: Iliad 19.55

• Homer: Odyssey 15.475

• Homer: Odyssey 20.60

• Euripdes: Iphigenia in Taurus 1089

Encounters

• Actaeon: Apollodorus 3.5.1, Pausanias 9.2.3

• Admetus: Apollodorus 1.9.16

• Adonis: Apollodorus 3.14.4

• Aloads: Apollodorus 1.7.5

• Atreus: Apollodorus e.2.10

• Broteas: Apollodorus e.2.3

• Callisto: Apollodorus 3.9.1

• Coronis: Pausanias 2.26.6

• Giants: Apollodorus 1.6.2

• Hera: Homer: Iliad 21.470, Homer: Iliad 21.502

• Herakles: Apollodorus 2.5.4

• Hieron: Pindar: Pythian 2.1, Pindar: Pythian 2.9

• Iphigenia: Apollodorus e.3.22, Pausanias 1.43.1, Pausanias 1.33.1, Euripdes: Iphigenia in Taurus 5

• Niobe: Apollodorus 3.5.7, Homer: Iliad 24.605

• Oeneus: Apollodorus 1.8.2, Bacchylides, Homer: Iliad 9.530, Homer: Iliad 9.538

• Orion: Apollodorus 1.4.4, Homer: Odyssey 5.120

• Pytho: Pausanias 2.7.7

Also see Artemis images.

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