Artemis Greek goddess help?

Question

No matter what I put in the google tool bar, I can't find the physical characteristics of the greek goddess artemis.
Can anyone help?

Answer 1

Artemis appears in works of art as the ideal of austere maiden beauty -- tall of stature, with bow and quiver on her shoulder, or torch in her hand, and generally leading or carrying a hind, or riding in a chariot drawn by hinds. Her commonest character is that of a huntress. In earlier times the figure is fuller and stronger and the clothing more complete; in later works she is represented as more slender and lighter of foot, the hair loose, the dress girt high, the feet protected by the Cretan shoe.

Answer 2

Artemis = Virgin Goddess

Artemis is the goddess of the hunt and animals. Her attributes in iconography include the bow and the fawn. She often appears with her brother, Apollo
you can find everything here:
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=images&imgsz=all&imgc=&vf=all&va=artemis&fr=yfp-t-501&ei=UTF-8
http://www.omplace.com/articles/Artemis.html
p.s. Be careful: Roman Diana and Artemis are not the same
(Diana was Hellenized very early in Rome as She already represented Artemis at the first lectisternium (banquet for the gods), held in 398 BCE. Yet Diana did not assume all of the characteristics of Artemis. She was not virginal like Artemis and initially Her character more closely resembled Artemis as the Huntress rather than the Lunar goddess. According to Ovidius (Ovid), it was much later, predominately during the early Imperial Empire, that Diana’s assimilation to the Lunar goddess and association with the moon occurred. This convergence may have developed as a result of the Romans believing that the moon was favorable for childbirth. )

Answer 3

Visit the following site:
www.pantheon.org

Enter the word 'artemis' in the serch box.

Apart from what is written there, there are many more
things that you should know.

The Rg Veda, which is now accepted to be more than 8000
years old says that Indians travelled all over the
world several times. Some common words have formed in
the legends of Europe due to their interaction.

(1) Artemis was often depicted with the crescent of the
moon above her forehead and was sometimes identified as
goddess of the moon. Cynthia, was a name of Artemis,
the word is cognate with Chandra (moon) in Sanskrit and
Telugu.

(2) Artemis asked her father Zeus to grant her eternal
virginity. Samartha in Telugu means 'maturtity or
mature girl'. The consonant form of Artemis is RTMS,
rearranging it becomes SMRT which is cognate with
Samartha.

(3) She was the protectress of women in labor, but it
was said that her arrows brought them sudden death
while giving birth. On rearranging the consonant form
RTMS, it becomes MRTS which is cognate with
Purti-chaavu (sudden death while giving birth) in
Telugu.

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Answer 4

Artemis was the Goddess of the Hunt. She was supposed to be one few Goddesses, to remain a virgin. She was supposed to be tall, had long beautiful hair (pulled back into a warrior braid), pretty, but lethal looks, and slightly built, to show her warrior side. Always had a pouch full of arrows on her back, and a bow in her hand. She protected the animals, so she wore no animal skins.

Sorry, that's all I could think of :-) .

Answer 5

The oldest representations of Artemis in Greek Archaic art portray her as Potnia Theron ("Queen of the Beasts"): a winged goddess holding a stag and leopard in her hands, or sometimes a leopard and a lion. this winged Artemis lingered in ex-votos as Artemis Orthia, with a sanctuary close by Sparta.

In Greek classical art she is usually portrayed as a maiden huntress clothed in a girl's short skirt, with hunting boots, a quiver, a silver bow and arrows. Often she is shown in the shooting pose, and is accompanied by a hunting dog or stag. Her darker side is revealed in some vase paintings, where she is shown as the death-bringing goddess whose arrows fell young maidens and women. The attributes of the goddess were often varied: bow and arrows were sometimes replaced by hunting spears; as a goddess of maiden dances she held a lyre; as a goddess of light a pair of flaming torches.

Only in post-Classical art do we find representations of Artemis-Diana with the crown of the crescent moon, as Luna. In the ancient world, although she was occasionally associated with the moon, she was never portrayed as the moon itself. Ancient statues of the goddesses can sometimes be found with crescent moons, however these are invariably Renaissance-era additions.

If you can't google it, try in wikipedia

Answer 6

Also at http://images.google.com do a search using both the words "Diana" and "Huntress" or "Diana" and "Acteon" - You will get to see lots of pictures. Diana is the Roman name for the Greek goddess, Artemis.

Answer 7

So you know how to look at the images on Google?
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Artemis&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2

Answer 8

she is usually portrayed with brown hair and pale skin this is a more modern idea of what she would have looked like http://www.jpc-artworks.com/gallery/maidens/images/artemis.jpg while this is more classic idea http://www.learningtreasures.com/suite101/artemis_coloring.jpg she always carried with her a bow and quiver and was usually surrounded by wild animals

Answer 9

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=artemis&ei=UTF-8&fr=yie7c&x=wrt

You're right! no physical Chara...