Artemis (mythology)
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Artemis was the Greek goddess of hunting (AUDIO: Project: Lazarus) and the Moon, as well as twin sister of Apollo. As a daughter of Zeus, she was also a sibling of Athena, Castor and Pollux, Dionysius, Hebe, Heracles, Minos, Hermes and Persephone. (PROSE: Deadly Reunion)
Artemis lived with the other Olympians on the planet Olympus. When Prometheus returned there after escaping his imprisonment, he asked Aphrodite whether Artemis still lived, and she replied that she did. (COMIC: The Life Bringer!)
According to one myth, she accidentally killed her lover Orion with an arrow during a challenge with her brother. (PROSE: Byzantium!) According to another, Orion angered Artemis, either by trying to rape one of her handmaidens or claiming to be a better archer than the goddess; Artemis sent a giant scorpion to kill him, and rewarded it by placing it in the sky as the constellation Scorpio. (PROSE: Introduction and links)
Martinique told Chris Cwej that, according to myth, no man could see Artemis unclothed, on pain of death. Artemis Mons, a mountain in the middle of the Aulis Crater on Iphigenia, was named after the goddess. (PROSE: So Vile a Sin)
Her equivalent in the Roman pantheon was Diana. (PROSE: Byzantium!)
Other references
When she joined the Forge, William Abberton gave Cassandra Schofield "Artemis" as a new name, after her amazing hunting abilities. (AUDIO: Project: Lazarus)
