what was Diana the goddess of?

Answer 1

In Roman mythology, Diana was the goddess of the hunt, in literature the equivalent of the Greek goddess Artemis. Born with her twin brother Apollo on the island of Delos, Diana was the daughter of Jupiter and Latona.
Diana was the hunting goddess, associated with wild animals and woodlands. She also later became a moon goddess, supplanting Luna, and was an emblem of chastity. Oak groves were especially sacred to her. She was praised in poetry for her strength, athletic grace, beauty and hunting skill.

Answer 2

Diana was the hunting goddess, associated with wild animals and woodlands. She also later became a moon goddess, supplanting Luna, and was an emblem of chastity. Oak groves were especially sacred to her. She was praised in poetry for her strength, athletic grace, beauty and hunting skill.In practice she made up a trinity with two other Roman deities: Egeria the water nymph, her servant and assistant midwife; and Virbius, the woodland god. In her etymology, "Diana" is simply :"the Goddess", with a Greek parallel in the name — though not the cult practice — of Dione at Dodona.

Answer 3

Diana was the Roman Goddess of Hunting.

Answer 4

Diana (whose name simply means "Goddess") is the Roman goddess of the wild places who protects women and girls, especially virgins. Like the Greek Artemis, with whom the Romans identified her, she loves forests and the hunt, is the patroness of childbirth, and is associated with the light of the moon. The Romans recognized three aspects of her--as the Moon-goddess, they called her Luna; as an underworld deity of magic, Hekate; and as the huntress-goddess, Diana.

On the shores of Lake Nemi, a famously beautiful lake in a volcanic crater not far from Rome, Diana Nemorensis ("of the Grove") had a temple in a forest on the lake's shores. Her priest at this temple became so by plucking the golden bough (a branch covered with the sacred mistletoe) from the wood and then killing the former priest in single combat. In his turn, however, he too could be slain by another.

In Gaul, she was identified with Nemetona, "Goddess of the Sacred Grove", and considered the consort of Mars. She was also associated with Nemesis, the Greek goddess of Fate, and in this aspect is shown with an apple bough and cider bowl. Diana's feast day is August 13th.

Answer 5

diana was the goddess of the moon and of the forest animals

Answer 6

She is the Roman counterpart of Artemis, Goddess of the moon, hunt.

Answer 7

She was the goddess of the hunt.

Answer 8

She was the Roman goddess of the hunt, wilderness, and the moon, methinks

Answer 9

Car accidents. No, seriously - she was goddess of the hunt.

Answer 10

goodness of hunt...virgin >:), godness of the silver moon, and protector of the amazons, daughter of Zeus and Leto, sister of Apollo