Here are a few examples of Artemis represented in various forms of art
Artemis was the Goddess of archery, hunters and
animals and beautifully rendered in this statue
Artemis represented in FANTASIA during the Beethoven Pastoral segment
Artist representation of Artemis on a vase
Jennifer Lawrence has given new life to Artemis as Katniss in HUNGER GAMES
ReplyDeleteThere is much more to Artemis than we think or know.... Artemis was for a while also the goddess associated to the Amazons, the fiercely independent female warriors. Legend tells us that Ephesus, in Turkey, was their capital city at some point in their history. Low and behold, Artemis changed shapes with time and became a goddess of life, with statues changing from the traditional huntress pose to that of a mother with thousand breasts. Very interestingly, Artemis remained a virgin and never married. Coincidentally (or not....), there is the house of the Virgin Mary just above Ephesus, a building consecrated by the Pope and generally acknowledged as being her house. There is also a fantastic museum showing the evolution of gods, i.e. how they evolved in time. Artemis is one of the oldest goddesses and could therefore indeed be the "new" Virgin Mary, an evolution from the Roman Diana as well as the breast-feeding mother.
ReplyDeleteJust a theory, but it gave me kicks when I visited the site....
On the 12 Olympian Gods, the blog has posted quite a lot under 'Greek God of the Month': Apollo, Ares, Artemis and Hermes.
ReplyDeleteThere is also stuff elsewhere on Dionysus (Bacchus) and Poseidon (Neptune).
Still to go: Aphrodite, Athena, Demeter, Hephaestus, Hera and Hestia.