Artemis

Welcome to the Artemis Page! Here, you will learn all about Artemis.

Artemis was the godess of the hunt, health to childbirth, and also goddes of the moon. while her brother Apollo was god of the sun. Artemis was always roaming about the wilderness. Artemis was very fast and agile.

Let me tell you a little story...

 ARTEMIS AND THE GIANTS While much of Classical Greek mythology portrays Artemis as retiring and indisposed to act unlesspersonally insulted, a few do show her as quick witted and decisive. One of these myths concerns thetragic fate of Otus and Ephialtes, giants whom the Greeks writers called sons of Poseidon.These two giants were extremely arrogant, and cared only for each other. Selfish and wasteful, theyexisted for the instant gratification of whatever desires they happened to have. One day, they decidedthat they would take over Mount Olympus. Astonishingly, they nearly succeeded, forcing Zeus to throwthem back to earth with a thunderbolt. He was going to kill these violent rivals in order to secure hisposition, but Poseidon convinced him to let them go. Thwarted in one foolish desire, Otus and Ephialtes came up with another. Each decided that they would kill a godess And they chose Hera, the other, Artemis. However, Hera was unreachable, and Artemiswas not merely the chief hunter on Olympus, but chief defender of all Goddesses. She allowed the twogiants to pursue her, leading them into the sea. They were sons of a sea god, and they ran across it aswasily as if it were land. No one notes if they were surprised that Artemis could also perform this feat.Since she is the daughter of a sea Goddess, perhaps it wasn't surprising.Artemis led Otus and Ephialtes to the island of Naxos and allowed them to approach her so closely theynearly touched her, and felt the movement of the air when she disappeared. Some distance away, at theedge of the forest appeared a white hind with silver hooves, which dashed away. True to their shortattention spans, the brothers grabbed their spears and chased it instead. Eventually they each arrived atopposite sides of a glade. Able to see only the hind at its centre, they threw their spears and impaledone another.