Who are the goddesses Artemis and Aphrodite?
• Pictures and descriptions of the four principal Olympian goddesses, including Artemis and Aphrodite, which makes clear the sort of essential associations and distinctions Artemis (= Roman Diana). A virgin goddess, associated with the hunt, chastity, and childbirth (!) Attributes: bow, fawn (or doe or stag); often appears with her brother, Apollo; usually a short dress (chiton) and a girl’s hairstyle Artemis, the maiden-who-is-desired-but-cannot-be-touched Associated with “virgin” nature, animals, hunt, chastity (but also childbirth!) Odyssey 6 (a simile describing Nausicaa): “As Artemis the arrow-shooting moves across the mountains, delighting in boars and swift running deer, and with her play the nymphs, daughters of Zeus, who range in the wilds, and Leto rejoices in her heart: Artemis holds head and forehead above them all and is easily known, but all are beautiful: so excelling her handmaidens shone the unbroken virgin. In origin, “Mistress of the Animals”, both (in some sense) a
