CLAS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Iphigenia, Eileithyia, Virginity

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS100
• Professor: Ronald Kroeker

Document Summary

Artimis is subversive where she completely sides with the opposite aspect that others decide. She hangs out with more females and tends to avoid males. Protects wild animals but also inspires hunters to shoot them. In charge of young girls who left their home before marriage. They would go through ceremonies and offers to artemis. The young girl would leave the protection of artemis once she was married and went under the control of aphrodite (marriage) She is also goddess of the amazons (not actual virgins but they did not hang out with men) Artemis was often considered goddess of the moon and hecate (witchcraft goddess) which controlled the crossroads. She is often called selene in the heavens, artemis on earth and. Both of them are portrayed with a bow (archers) or a quiver and very intelligent/beautiful. Artemis was not the god of civilized culture like her brother but rather goddess of the wild.