The statue of Artemis
object · 1 work · 2 mentions · 9 anchored passages
the heavenly image · the holy statue · the image · the image Zeus hurled down · the image of the goddess · the polished statue · the statue · the statue of the goddess
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1 expressionStatue of Artemis1 mention
Iphigenia in Tauris (Greek)
And you told me to go to the boundaries of the Tauric land, where Artemis, your sister, has an altar, and to take the statue of the goddess, which is said here to have fallen to this temple from heaven;
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Iphigenia in Tauris
The sacred wooden image (xoanon) of Artemis housed in the Taurian temple, the object of Orestes' oracle-commanded quest and the centerpiece of Iphigenia's escape plot.
And then Phoebus cried out a golden voice from the tripod, and sent me here, to get the image Zeus hurled down, and set it up in Athena’s land.
Orestes bore his sister on his left arm, going into the sea and quickly up the ladder, and he set her on the ship, along with the statue of Zeus’ daughter, fallen from heaven.
Daughter of Agamemnon, why have you lifted up in your arms the statue of the goddess from its pedestal that must not be moved?