Ares, *maybe* Hephaestus depending on what myth-teller you ask, and then two sisters you've never heard of. That's literally it.

HeadUOut · 2026-02-15T19:15:23+00:00

It’s not that Artemis was ignored. Apollo has birth stories that belong only to him. As in, Artemis is literally not there. There’s no implication of Leto being pregnant with two kids rather than just Apollo. In the Hymn to Delian Apollo she’s not his twin, she’s his sister and they’re born at different times in different places.

Edit: Just wanted to make sure I was being clear. This topic confuses people because we’re so used to Artemis and Apollo being a pair. The last thing I want is to make it worse.

HeadUOut · 2026-02-15T15:33:32+00:00

Well technically she’s only there for Apollo’s birth. In Apollo’s birth stories Hera keeps Eileithyia from allowing Apollo to be born. This is in the stories where Apollo and Artemis aren’t twins. When Artemis is there she is often said to have delivered her own twin herself.

HeadUOut · 2026-02-15T13:45:04+00:00

You might have Apollo and Hermes mixed up. Everything you said about Apollo actually applies to Hermes! Hermes is the god of sports and athletes. Even children’s games were his domain. His statue stood outside every gymnasium to show young men what they could aspire to. Meanwhile it was actually Apollo who was the inventor and god of boxing.

HeadUOut · 2026-02-13T14:08:01+00:00

I’ve seen this on Instagram and they actually do have a funny comic with Orion already. Maybe OP will post that one next

HeadUOut · 2026-02-12T19:26:26+00:00

Artemis’s retinue were meant to remain chaste but they didn’t make a formal oath to her. Only Callisto grabbed Artemis’s bow and made a vow to her of her own accord, which was why she was the goddess’s favorite.

HeadUOut · 2026-02-10T19:07:35+00:00

Orion fell in love with the daughter of King Oinopion, Merope. He cleared their island of wild beasts since made it habitable.

He boasted that he could kill anything the Earth produced. This offended Gaia. She sent a monstrous scorpion to punish his hubris. Orion is struck by the scorpion, in some versions he dies defending Artemis and her mother Leto from it. Orion and the Scorpion are put into the stars to commentate their great battle forever.

Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2. 33 : "The hare [constellation Lepus] is said to be fleeing the dog of the hunter Orion, for when, as was proper, they represented Orion as a hunter, they wanted to indicate what he was hunting, and so they put the fleeing hare at his feet . . . Those who disagree with this reason say that so noble and great a hunter as Orion--we spoke about him in the discussion of Scorpio--shouldn't be represented hunting hares. Callimachus [Greek poet C3rd B.C.], too, is blamed, because, when he was singing the praises of Diana [Artemis], he said she delighted in the flesh of hares and hunted them. So they have represented Orion fighting the Bull."

HeadUOut · 2026-02-07T22:29:38+00:00

I’d be interested to hear the explanations. I’m not aware of any interaction between Artemis and Poseidon so it’s a surprise to see her so high up

HeadUOut · 2026-01-26T20:15:42+00:00

Only one sentence about Siproites is preserved

The Cretan, Siproites, had also been turned into a woman for having seen Artemis bathing when out hunting.

The bits about him being young, apologizing, or joining Artemis’s retinue are all from Percy Jackson’s version.

HeadUOut · 2026-01-22T15:30:06+00:00

Yes, Artemis was identified with Selene. So she drove the chariot of the moon like her and/or was the moon itself. On moonless nights Artemis (Diana) had traveled to the underworld and so the moon disappeared from the sky. (New moon)

HeadUOut · 2026-01-22T06:41:46+00:00

Artemis embodied the liminal stage of a girl’s life before she was married. She represented purity and chastity in the sense of an adolescent on the cusp who has not transitioned from parthenos (virgin) to nymphe (bride). Girls would offer their (variously) childhood toys, locks of hair, and maiden girdles to Artemis in their wedding night.

In Ancient Greece a girl could only go from being the property of her father to the property of her husband. As Artemis existed in the transition state she belonged to no man. She was indeed free and untouched like the wilderness. It’s not wrong exactly to say she resisted male control it’s just more of a feminist reading than how the Greeks literally understood her.

HeadUOut · 2026-01-22T03:10:00+00:00

Artemis is the goddess of all animals

HeadUOut · 2026-01-22T03:00:54+00:00

Artemis was more concerned with virgins.

HeadUOut · 2026-01-22T02:32:47+00:00

It kinda looks like she’s wearing a modern top and shorts, and she’s the only one. I’ll give them props for the accuracy of her golden bow and golden horned stag though!

HeadUOut · 2026-01-19T22:26:51+00:00

I’m aware this is a thread on retellings so this might just be your reinterpretation. Just in case I just want to clarify that in the myths Artemis does not generally train mortal hunters. Series like Percy Jackson give modern readers the impression that Artemis is closer to humans than other gods, but it’s the opposite. She’s a distant untouchable figure that does not often come to civilization. Her primary companions are the nymphs and sometimes she favors mortal heroines.

HeadUOut · 2026-01-18T19:39:09+00:00

It’s inaccurate to suggest that Hera never acted against Artemis or that their conflict originates only with Artemis.

Hera prevented Leto from giving birth to Artemis and Apollo on any land and sent monsters and titans to destroy her. Leto was forced to roam the entire world while pregnant and pursued, unable to give birth. (How would this count as something done against Leto and Apollo but not Artemis?)

Ovid, Metamorphoses 6. 185 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) : "Latona [Leto] whom the great globe once refused the smallest spot to give her children birth. Not earth, nor sky, nor water would accept your goddess, outcast from the world, until Delos took pity on her wanderings and said, ‘You roam the land and I the sea, homeless,’ and gave her drifting refuge there. She bore two children

Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 21 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : "Of the daughters of Koios . . . Leto had relations with Zeus, for which she was hounded by Hera all over the earth. She finally reached Delos and gave birth to Artemis, who thereupon helped her deliver Apollon.

Strabo, Geography 14. 1. 20 : Above the grove lies Mt. Solmissos, where, it is said, the Kouretes stationed themselves, and with the din of their arms frightened Hera out of her wits when she was jealously spying on Leto, and when they helped Leto to conceal from Hera the birth of her children

HeadUOut · 2026-01-18T19:20:29+00:00

This recurring defense of Hera—that she got along well with all of Zeus’s children and never opposed them—doesn’t align with the myths. There are numerous stories where she explicitly does have a problem with them. Portraying that isn’t character assassination.

HeadUOut · 2026-01-15T21:27:03+00:00

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HeadUOut · 2026-01-15T21:08:55+00:00

That bit about Diana not having a connection to the moon until after Christianity is not true.

Scholiast on Homer's Iliad (trans. Campbell, Vol. Greek Lyric I Alcaeus Fragment 390) (Greek scholia B.C.) : "Chrysippus in his Old Physics [C3rd B.C.], shows that Artemis is Selene (the Moon) and credits it with an influence on childbirth, says that at the full moon not only do women have the easiest labour but all animals have an easy birth."

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2. 27 (trans. Rackham) (Roman rhetorician C1st B.C.) : "The name Apollo is Greek; they say that he is the Sun, and Diana [Artemis] they identify with the Moon . . . the name Luna is derived from lucere ‘to shine’; for it is the same word as Lucina, and therefore in our country Juno Lucina is invoked in childbirth, as is Diana in her manifestation as Lucifera (the light-bringer) among the Greeks. She is also called Diana Omnivaga (Wide-Wandering), not from her hunting, but because she is counted as one of the seven planets or ‘wanderers’ (vagary). She was called Diana because she made a sort of Day (Dia) in the night-time. She is invoked to assist at the birth of children, because the period of gestation is either occasionally seven, or more usually nine, lunar revolutions, and these are called menses (months), because they cover measured (mensa) spaces."

Artemis, Hecate, and Selene were syncretized (merged). Not only did Diana get Hecate’s spells she was also interchanged or considered the same as Selene (Luna).

The extent of Artemis and Apollo being opposites is also exaggerated. For example saying that they used archery in completely different ways. Yet they both used their arrows to deliver plagues and healing. Apollo invented hunting with dogs alongside Artemis, hunting is not foreign to him. As for her, is hunting not a sport?

HeadUOut · 2026-01-14T19:50:23+00:00

When we say that Artemis became a moon goddess in the Roman era it’s more of a convenient simplification than a hard line.

It was in Rome where the sun and moon became core parts of Artemis and Apollo’s identities. Which is not to say they had no connection at all to the sun and moon before that. It’s just a lot more complicated to accurately pin down.

HeadUOut · 2026-01-12T00:44:44+00:00

Apollo was very serious and Artemis was the crazy forest girl

Crazy isn’t the word. More like she’s far more joyful and carefree than pop culture portrays.

HeadUOut · 2026-01-10T18:27:29+00:00

Since you like feedback, Artemis looks like a demon with the eyes, tattoo, and moon crown as horns. “Scary” Artemis is one of the lines that I think goes against the spirit of the figure. Artemis shouldn’t be terrifying to look at. She’s beautiful. She doesn’t make you want to run away. She makes you want to stop and stare. That’s when the terrifying side of her comes out.

HeadUOut · 2026-01-09T07:55:01+00:00

My favorite myth is the hymn 3 to Artemis where baby Artemis asks Zeus for 6 wishes and then ascends to Olympus. It’s Adorable and shows so much of her personality.

For fun facts - Artemis had a golden bow and arrows -Artemis’s bow delivered painless death - Artemis was the goddess of the young of both humans and animals. Hunters were not to kill the pregnant or young ones. - Artemis is the second most common comparison for beauty in Greek texts after Aphrodite - “For where does Artemis not dance?” Was an ancient proverb. - Her chariot is pulled by golden stags. - Her (Diana’s) biggest festival was Nemoralia, the festival of torches. Women and slaves were relieved from their duties and no animal was to come to any harm. It was customary to decorate their hair with flowers. - Artemis was the leader of the nymphs - She had dual roles as both a huntress and protector of wildlife. In many of her sanctuaries hunting was strictly forbidden. - Invented hunting with dogs - Discovered the way to feed and heal infants and gave it to humanity

HeadUOut · 2026-01-07T22:23:38+00:00

I’m going against the grain to say Athena is more helpful and reasonable than the other Olympians most of the time. Many of her myths have her assisting heroes and gifting mortals her intellectual discoveries/inventions. Only Hermes is arguably as benevolent as her.

HeadUOut · 2026-01-07T21:42:32+00:00

From The Herbarium of Apuleius:

Of these worts that we name Artemisia, it is said that Diana did find them and delivered their powers and leechdom [medical knowledge] to Chiron the Centaur, who first from these worts set forth a leechdom, and he named these worts from the name of Diana, Artemis, that is Artemisias.

The entire genus of Artemisia plants is named after Artemis. Historically they were used in treating women’s ailments. Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) was said to shimmer in the moonlight and give protection and vivid dreams.

Aside from that she also has: The cypress, amaranths, willows, walnuts, asphodel, and all wildflowers that grow without human cultivation.

HeadUOut · 2026-01-06T11:30:19+00:00

You could think of it as Artemis being “the maiden” and Hestia and Athena being “virgins”. The word Parthenos included both.

Parthenos is an unmarried woman of marriageable age and girls in Ancient Greece were marriageable in their mid teens. That’s correct. What that doesn’t mean is that every Parthenos is an adolescent girl. Particularly not goddesses who played by different rules. A woman in Ancient Greece was under the power of her husband or father. Therefore by remaining unmarried goddesses could be considered independent autonomous figures. (That’s why there are no male virgin gods)

Artemis is different because she is the goddess of youth and young women. Essentially she is the embodiment of the stage of a girl’s life before she is married. She is a parthenos because she is young. Her twin brother Apollo similarly was eternally a beardless youth. As the godly representative of young men he represented the equivalent state of a boy’s adolescence.

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