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Artemis Flashcards

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Actaeon

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Stumbles upon Diana naked on Mt. Cithaeron

Hunted with hounds with in forest finds her, nymphs cover her, she turns him into a stag and his hounds kill him

origin of hunting ritual as sacrifice?

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Arctophylax/Arturus/Bootes

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Arcus, Ursa Minor

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Artemis

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Diana
Asia Minor connections
Fertility Deity
External Virgin- dangerously seductive

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Callisto and Arcas

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Diana’s favourite “most beautiful”
epithet
Jupiter falls for Callisto and seduces her
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
gets pregnant is discovered
child = Arcas
Callisto is transformed into bear - Ursa Major, Arctus
Arcas - Ursa Minor

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Cynthia

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Epiethet, born in Cynthus

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Diana of Ephesus

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goddess of childbirth
protector of all young creatures

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Euripides’ Hippolytus

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play on Hipp

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Great Bear

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Big Dipper

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Hecate

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Descendant of titans, Goddess of Crossroads
associated with ghosts and underworld
black magic

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Hippolytus

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chaste, young man
devoted to Artemis
despises Aphrodite - Aphro causes his step-mother Phaedra to fall in love with him - Phaedra tries to fight

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Kourotrophos

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“nurturer of the young”
goddess of childbirth
protector of all young creatures

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Leto

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Mother of Apollo and Artemis
Artemis - first born assists in brothers birth

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Little Bear

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Little Dipper

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Merope

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Orion pursues her

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Mt. Cithaeron

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Where Actaeon finds Diana naked

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Mt. Cynthus

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Artemis birthplace

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Niobe/Niobids

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Hubris - boasted that she deserved more honour than Leto because she had 7 daughters and 7 sons (Niobids)

Apollo kills sons, Artemis kills daughters

Niobe transformed into crag in Phrygia

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Nymphe

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bride

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Oenopion

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father of Merope - gets Orion drunk and blinds him

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Orion

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hunter and worshiper of Artemis
but also tries to rape her she kills him with scorpion string

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Ortygia

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Artemis birthplace, where Mt. Cynthus is

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Phaedra

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Aphrodite curses her to fall in love with Hippolytus (stepson) who despises her - nurse gets Phaedra to reveal feelings to Hippolytus, he rejects she commits suicide - leaves a false claim of rape in note

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Phoebe

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Epithet for Artemis “Shining” as she is the Moon goddess

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Potipar’s Wife Motif

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Woman makes advances towards man and then falsely claims that he wronged her

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Potnia Theron/Mistress of Animals

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Homeric Poems
connection with Cybele?
another incarnation of Magna Mater

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Scorpion

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constellation

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Selene

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cold, white, chaste

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Sirius

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constellation

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Theseus

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Poseidon’s son
Hippolytus’ father
curses son
Hipp gets killed from bull from water
Artemis starts cult in his honour - virgins will cut hair and lament his death

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Lesbiansim

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latent motif
close knit female companions

31
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Misandry

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hatred of men, men excluded, legend of the Amazons

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Catasterism

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transformation into star or constellation

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