Greek Mythology was a polytheistic religion that began in the bronze age and declined around the advent of Christianity. Greek Mythology was originally created to explain phenomenons in the natural world such as the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, stars, comets, seasons, and more. Another reason it was created was to answer questions like where someone goes after dieing (Atsma). This polytheistic religion believed that there were many gods and goddesses who were in control of everything about their lives and society ranging from the harvest to the wars they fought. One of the goddesses worshipped was Artemis, she is the goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, childbirth, fertility, the moon. Artemis had a very unusual birth,
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She is the sister of Apollo, the god of music (Atsma). Leto was chased from Mount Olympus by Hera, Zeus’s wife, because Hera was jealous that Leto was having Zeus’s twins. Leto eventually found herself on the island of Delos where she gave birth to Artemis and Apollo. Artemis had been born one day before Apollo; as soon as Artemis was born she helped deliver Apollo making her the goddess of childbirth (Artemis Encyclopedia). At the age of three, Artemis asked Zeus for six things: eternal chastity, to have many names so she could be told apart from her brother, to be the light bringer, to have a bow and arrow plus a knee-length tunic, to have sixty “Daughters of Okeanos” who were all nine years of age, and for twenty nymphs to watch her bow and hunting dogs while she rested (Artemis Encyclopedia). She later asked for one more thing, to not have any cities dedicated to her, but to rule the mountains and all the wilderness …show more content…
In many myths it shows Artemis as being revengeful and mean. According to a myth, she killed Ariadne, on the request of god Dionysus. Ariadne was the daughter of Minos, the king of Crete, who abandoned her father after riding home with him once he had killed the minotaur (“Artemis”Greek). Artemis had many other bad encounters with mortals as well including the time she was indirectly responsible for the death of Ariadne's sister Phaedra. As the story goes, Phaedra was infatuated with her husband's stepson, who, however, rejected her advances because he was dedicated to Artemis (“Artemis”
She is the sister of Apollo, the god of music (Atsma). Leto was chased from Mount Olympus by Hera, Zeus’s wife, because Hera was jealous that Leto was having Zeus’s twins. Leto eventually found herself on the island of Delos where she gave birth to Artemis and Apollo. Artemis had been born one day before Apollo; as soon as Artemis was born she helped deliver Apollo making her the goddess of childbirth (Artemis Encyclopedia). At the age of three, Artemis asked Zeus for six things: eternal chastity, to have many names so she could be told apart from her brother, to be the light bringer, to have a bow and arrow plus a knee-length tunic, to have sixty “Daughters of Okeanos” who were all nine years of age, and for twenty nymphs to watch her bow and hunting dogs while she rested (Artemis Encyclopedia). She later asked for one more thing, to not have any cities dedicated to her, but to rule the mountains and all the wilderness …show more content…
In many myths it shows Artemis as being revengeful and mean. According to a myth, she killed Ariadne, on the request of god Dionysus. Ariadne was the daughter of Minos, the king of Crete, who abandoned her father after riding home with him once he had killed the minotaur (“Artemis”Greek). Artemis had many other bad encounters with mortals as well including the time she was indirectly responsible for the death of Ariadne's sister Phaedra. As the story goes, Phaedra was infatuated with her husband's stepson, who, however, rejected her advances because he was dedicated to Artemis (“Artemis”