Artemis - Versailles, France
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Artemis, the Greek Goddess of the hunt, wild animals, wilderness, childbirth, virginity and young girls. The Romans called her Diana.
Waymark Code: WMD0D4
Location: Île-de-France, France
Date Posted: 11/02/2011
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This 1694 marble sculpture depicts in flowing layed gowns with her left breast exposed. She is satnding and holding a cup in her right hand. her left hand dangles near her hip.
The artists are Armand Lefebvre and Martin Desjardins.
Wikipedia (
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" Some scholars[1] believe that the name, and indeed the goddess herself, was originally pre-Greek.[2] Homer refers to her as Artemis Agrotera, Potnia Theron: "Artemis of the wildland, Mistress of Animals".[3] In the classical period of Greek mythology, Artemis (Greek: (nominative) ??teµ??, (genitive) ??t?µ?d??) was often described as the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. She was the Hellenic goddess of the hunt, wild animals, wilderness, childbirth, virginity and young girls, bringing and relieving disease in women; she often was depicted as a huntress carrying a bow and arrows.[4] The deer and the cypress were sacred to her. In later Hellenistic times, she even assumed the ancient role of Eileithyia in aiding childbirth."