Artemis's Role In Greek Mythology

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Artemis was the daughter of the great Leto and the great Zeus (Roman, Luke, and Monica Roman, 2010). Artemis had a twin brother named Apollo. She was a very helpful goddess, she was the goddess of wilderness, and wild animals. She helped midwifes as a goddess of birth (Roman, Luke, and Monica Roman, 2010). She also was a huntress, meaning she hunted. Artemis comes from Ortygia, a island near Italy. “Ortygia is an island which is a historical centere of the city of Syracuse, Sicily”. Some don’t know how she was born, some say she was born before her bother others say after. Some say before because she helped her mother give birth to her brother. Or she was born at the same time as her twin brother. Both her and her brother have three functions,

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