Artemis

@dianaartemis

I post original sources, translations, poems and artwork concerning Artemis / Diana. This is a side blog. Feel free to submit if you have anything Artemis- or Diana-related to share. No offense, but I won't be posting prose descriptions of your UPG, but I might post your poetry. General mythology: romewaspushed.tumblr.com ~ Main blog: demonbloodsausagedog.tumblr.com

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hildegardavon

Josuë Dupon, 1864-1935

Diana, 1897, ivory and metal and onyx pedestal, 64x29x20 cm

Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

There is a copy (with some differences) in The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

calebauer

diana at the bath (1830) by james ward inspired digital procreate study ✺ november 2024

mikeybooch

Artemis as undersea huntress.

In doing research for my siren piece and delving into depictions of merpeople in Ancient Greek art, I found an article that briefly mentioned a cult image in Arcadia that depicted Artemis with the lower half of a fish. Needless to say, curiosity took hold. I’m always interested in the different ways in which the Greek gods were represented in various regions, but there was no accompanying image or source for such a bold and unusual claim.

The cult image in question belonged to an ancient sanctuary of the Oceanid Eurynome. The ancient geographer Pausanias wrote about the image (though he had never seen it himself). He said that the people of Phigalia believed Eurynome was an epithet of Artemis, but he states in his writings that there is no probable connection between a fish-tailed goddess and Artemis.

Nevertheless the image of Artemis as an underwater huntress took hold! She wears a fish scale alopekis and has seals as her companions, as they are the dogs of the sea.

greenfinchg-illustration

Artemis 🏹

ladyvictoriart

Whilst at Aulis, preparing for war with Troy, King Agamemnon kills a deer in a sacred grove of Artemis, prompting the goddess to send harsh winds, trapping his ships. To appease Artemis, Agamemnon is commanded to sacrifice his eldest daughter Iphigenia. In some tales she is killed, but in others she is saved by Artemis and taken to Tauris to wait out the Trojan war in safety.