Artemis

Artemis herself had taught him how to kill every kind of wild creature that is bred in mountain forests, but neither she nor his famed skill in archery could now save him, for the spear of Menelaos struck him in the back as he was fleeing;

There, within the mighty sanctuary, Leto and Artemis healed him and made him glorious to behold, while Apollo of the silver bow fashioned a wraith in the likeness of Aeneas, and armed as he was.

My mother - her who had been queen of all the land under Mount Plakos - he brought hither with the spoil, and freed her for a great sum, but the archer - queen Artemis took her in the house of your father.

So when rosy-fingered Dawn made love to Orion, you precious gods were all of you furious till Artemis went and killed him in Ortygia.

As the huntress Artemis goes forth upon the mountains of Taygetus or Erymanthus to hunt wild boars or deer, and the wood-nymphs, daughters of Aegis-bearing Zeus, take their sport along with her (then is Leto proud at seeing her daughter stand a full head taller than the others, and eclipse the loveliest amid a whole bevy of beauties), even so did the girl outshine her handmaids.

If you are a goddess and dwell in heaven, I can only conjecture that you are Zeus’ daughter Artemis, for your face and figure resemble none but hers;

But when Tissaphernes learned of this plan, he gathered together a large army and sent out horsemen to carry word to everybody to rally at Ephesus for the protection of Artemis.

When this plan had been decided upon and carried out, the armies went away, the barbarians to Tralles in Caria, and the Greeks to Leucophrys, where there was a very holy shrine of Artemis and a lake more than a stadium in length, with a sandy bottom and an unfailing supply of drinkable, warm water.

And one would have been encouraged at another sight also—Agesilaus in the van, and after him the rest of the soldiers, returning garlanded from the gymnasia and dedicating their garlands to Artemis.

neither Zeus the god of birth nor Hera the goddess of marriage, nor the Fates that bring things to fulfilment, nor Artemis of childbirth, nor mother Rhea, nor the Eileithyiae who preside over human birth, nor Aphrodite, named after the natural union and intercourse of the female with the male;

But I think they would sooner strip off the goddess's adornment than touch these.

and they abstain not even from Athena nor from Artemis;

whence Artemis is called by some "the air-cleaver," being a kind of being, and the air is dusky.

or, if not this, then how is it that, in cases where they are not harmed, they grow bitter—like some irascible old woman provoked to anger—as men say that Artemis was wroth with the Aetolians on account of Oeneus?

and also the one whom Artemis once drove from her chorus, as a deer with horns of gold, the Titan girl, daughter of Merops, because of her loveliness;

The loudly rattling castanets cried out a shrill sound, when they, swift-footed as whirlwinds, followed the goddess on her chariot yoked to wild creatures, after the girl that was snatched away from the circling chorus of maidens— here Artemis with her bow, and there the grim-eyed goddess, in full armor, with her spear.

By majestic Artemis, child of Zeus, I swear I will never divulge aught of thy sorrows.

but Artemis, daughter of Zeus, sister of Phoebus, he doth honour, counting her the chief of goddesses, and ever through the greenwood, attendant on his virgin goddess, he dears the earth of wild beasts with his fleet hounds, enjoying the comradeship of one too high for mortal ken.

Or maybe thou hast sinned against Dictynna, huntress-queen, and art wasting for thy guilt in sacrifice unoffered.

In our perplexity, we asked Calchas, the seer, and he answered that we should sacrifice my own child Iphigenia to Artemis, whose home is in this land, and we would sail and sack the Phrygians’ capital.

Have you already offered the goddess a sacrifice to usher in the maiden’s marriage?

They are presenting the maiden to Artemis, queen of Aulis, previous to marriage;

Lord and general of Hellas, Agamemnon, you will not set free your ships from land until Artemis has your daughter Iphigenia as a victim.

O daughter of Leto, Dictynna of the mountains, to your hall, to the golden walls of your temple with beautiful pillars,

Here I begin the rites, which the goddess delights in, of a banquet noble in name only—I am silent as to the rest, for I fear the goddess—

Thence they arise and go abroad by night, veiled in thick mist, and utter their song with lovely voice, praising Zeus the aegis-holder, and queenly Hera of Argos who walks on golden sandals, and the daughter of Zeus the aegis-holder bright-eyed Athena, and Phoebus Apollo, and Artemis who delights in arrows, and Poseidon the earth holder who shakes the earth, and revered Themis, and quick-glancing …

And Leto was joined in love with Zeus who holds the aegis, and bore Apollo and Artemis delighting in arrows, children lovely above all the sons of Heaven.

Angered by this, Leto’s daughter detained the Greeks so that in requital for the beast’s life my father should sacrifice his own daughter.

Ask the huntress Artemis what wrong she punished when she stayed the frequent winds at Aulis;

Now by our mistress Artemis, you shall not escape the consequences of this audacity once Aegisthus returns.

And while they had vowed to Artemis that for every man they might slay of the enemy they would sacrifice a goat to the goddess, they were unable to find goats enough;

And the tithe, which they set apart for Apollo and for Artemis of the Ephesians, was distributed among the generals, each taking his portion to keep safely for the gods;

The share which belonged to Artemis of the Ephesians he left behind, at the time when he was returning from Asia with Agesilaus to take part in the campaign against Boeotia, in charge of Megabyzus, the sacristan of Artemis, for the reason that his own journey seemed likely to be a dangerous one;

If any one should violate this, it says, whether city or private man, or tribe, let them be under the curse, it says, of Apollo and Artemis and Leto and Athena Pronaea.

And never, it says, may they offer pure sacrifice unto Apollo, nor to Artemis, nor to Leto, nor to Athena Pronaea, and may the gods refuse to accept their offerings.

May they who fail to punish them never offer pure sacrifice unto Apollo, nor to Artemis, nor to Leto, nor to Athena Pronaea, and may the gods refuse to accept their offerings.

to the swan of Delos, to Leto the mother of the quails, and to Artemis, the goldfinch.

It's no longer Artemis Colaenis, but Artemis the goldfinch.

The polemarch sacrifices to Artemis Agrotera and to Enyalius, and administers the funeral contest, and makes offerings to those who have died in war and to Harmodius and Aristogeiton.

And the Tauri, the people who dwell about the Taurian peninsula, whatever strangers they capture among them — those of them who have been shipwrecked at sea — these they straightway sacrifice to the Taurian Artemis;

" This same prophetess calls the temples ruins, foretelling thus that the temple of Ephesian Artemis shall be swallowed up by chasms and earthquakes:

Hyperoche and Laodice they are called, and they are buried in the Artemisium in Delos, and the spot is in the sanctuary of the Delian Apollo.

for good fortune to Apollo, god of the streets, to Leto, and to Artemis;

and there with the maids of Delos shall I hymn the golden head-band and bow of Artemis, their goddess?

And he slew that dappled deer with horns of gold, that preyed upon the country-folk, glorifying Artemis, huntress queen of Oenoe.

Never, never, Lady Artemis, golden-haired child of Zeus, may I endure that slavery.

O snow-capped Cithaeron, dear to Artemis, holy vale of leaves, crowded with wild animals, would that you had never reared the one exposed to die, Oedipus, Jocasta’s child, when as a baby he was cast forth from his home, marked with a golden brooch;

May Artemis, who rushes over the hills with his mother, lay him low with an arrow, for coming against my city to sack it!

nor any more will Artemis in the hour of travail kindly greet these childless mothers.

Since they well knew the time of the Athenian festivals, they acquired fifty-oared ships and set an ambush for the Athenian women celebrating the festival of Artemis at Brauron.

Styx too was there and Urania and lovely Galaxaura with Pallas who rouses battles and Artemis delighting in arrows:

I sing of Artemis, whose shafts are of gold, who cheers on the hounds, the pure maiden, shooter of stags, who delights in archery, own sister to Apollo with the golden sword.