The Louvre Museum, Paris, 4th Century B.C.

Artemis, also known by her Roman name Diana, was the Greek goddess
of hunting and archery. She is often represented as a huntress with
bow and quiver on her shoulder and dogs or deer at her side. The
Greeks worshipped Artemis as the goddess of chastity and the
guardian of youths and maidens. At the time of the difficult
transition from adolescence to adulthood, the ancient Greeks used to
invoke the support of Artemis and held special rites dedicated to
her. Artemis was a pure virgen who had never known the joys of love
and marriage. Artemis greatest joy was run through the dense forest
hunting with her golden bow, accompanied by her dogs and her
favorite animal, the deer. She was renowned for her skill at archery.
No god or mortal could match her for accuracy. Artemis also came to
be looked up as the moon goddess, just as her twin brother Apollo was
viewed as the sun god. The ancient original of this reproduction was
found in the villa of the Emperor Hadrian at Tivoli near Rome.

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