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 Olympus, which in one account was a planet, and in another was located in the Land of Fiction. (AUDIO: The Wrath of Medusa) 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)