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Chapter Eight, Lecture Two. Artemis Athena. Artemis. The ancient Potnia Ther ōn? Daughter of Leto Twin sister of Apollo Born on Ortygia Helped with Apollo’s birth?. Artemis. Her iconography Bow and arrows Hunting attire boots skirt belt. Artemis the Virgin.
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Chapter Eight, Lecture Two Artemis Athena
Artemis • The ancient Potnia Therōn? • Daughter of Leto • Twin sister of Apollo • Born on Ortygia • Helped with Apollo’s birth?
Artemis • Her iconography • Bow and arrows • Hunting attire • boots • skirt • belt
Artemis the Virgin • Odd that the mother earth goddess should become the virgin goddess of the hunt • Still, there is pregnancy all around her in her stories • Artemis the Killer • Shows her dangerous side • Kills women in childbirth • arrows of Artemis • Kills in vengeance
Artemis • Niobe • Queen of Thebes • Challenged the honor of Leto • The goddess had only two children • Niobê had 12 • Apollo and Artemis kill all but one of Niobê’s children • Use of myth • Niobe’s excessive grief cited as an exemplum by Achilles to get Priam to eat
Artemis • Orion • Son of Poseidon and a hunter • Could walk on water • Blinded by Oinopion for raping his daughter, Meropê • With a boy on his shoulders, he walked toward the east, where the sun cured his blindness
Artemis • Orion (cont.) • Failed to find Oinopion • Either he tried to rape Artemis or he had an affair with Eos • Artemis put a scorpion on his head that killed him • The two constellations: Orion and Scorpio
Artemis • Actaeon • Theban prince, out hunting, accidentally saw Artemis bathing • She turned him into a stag • His dogs find him and tear him to pieces • A veiled human sacrifice?
Artemis • Callisto • Virgin follower of Artemis, daughter of Lycaeon • Zeus raped her, and she’s now pregnant • Enraged, Artemis turns her into a bear and then kills her • The child, Arcas, survives • The Brauron “little bears”
Artemis • Hippolytus • Athenian devotee of Artemis • Aphrodite works a way to destroy him • Phaedra, Theseus • Eventually killed by a bull
Athena • Daughter of Zeus and Metis • Muscular virgin • Goddess of the crafts of civilization (“wisdom”) • Weaving, carpentry, military-industrial complex and strategy, war chariot and warship, warriors • Helmet, owl, shield with Gorgon, snake, aigis breastplate
Athena • Arachnê • Girl from Lydia who challenged Athena in weaving • Ovid: Athena wove in stories of the fate of mortals who dared to challenge the gods • Archnê wove in stories of the corruption of the gods • Athena beats her with her loom, Arachnê tried to hang herself, and is changed into a spider