This Greek goddess of the hunt turned herself into a white doe to escape the Aloeids
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Actaeon - Wikipedia  Actaeon in Greek mythology, son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, ... An element of the earlier myth made Actaeon the familiar hunting companion of Artemis, no stranger. .... the Underworld Actaeon is Diana (Artemis)'s lover, and it is Jupiter who turns him into a stag, which puts Diana off hunting.
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Artemis - Wikipedia  Artemis was one of the most widely venerated of the Ancient Greek deities. Her Roman equivalent is Diana. Some scholars believe that the name, and indeed the goddess herself, was originally pre-Greek. ... She was the Hellenic goddess of the hunt, wild animals, wilderness, childbirth, virginity and protector of young girls,...
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Jeopardy Greek Gods-:- Flash cards by cueFlash  This Greek goddess of the hunt turned herself into a white doe to escape the Aloeids: Artemis. This ancient Greek city in Asia Minor was the site of the temple of...
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Jeopary Questions page 1499 - MOUNTAINS - TriviaBistro.com  1988: One of these genetically engineered white laboratory animals became the first animal patented  COLLEGE ... GREEK MYTHOLOGY: This Greek goddess of the hunt turned herself into a white doe to escape the Aloeids  MUSEUMS: A...
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Free Flashcards about GREEK MYTHOLOGY - StudyStack  Free flashcards to help memorize facts about GREEK MYTHOLOGY. Other activities to ... GODDESS OF THE HUNT AND APOLLO'S TWIN, ARTEMIS .... SHE TURNED HERSELF INTO A WHITE DOE TO ESCAPE THE ALOEIDS, ARTEMIS.
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THEMIS - Greek Titan Goddess of Divine Law, Custom & Oracular ...  Themis was the ancient Greek Titan-goddess of divine law and order--the traditional ... 129) and Ge, was married to Zeus, by whom she became the mother of the ..... In turn the goddess Hera of the white arms answered her : 'Ask me nothing of this, .... "Many and different are the stories told about Delphoi (Delphi), and even...
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"Medusa- once a beautiful priestess for Athena. Poseidon, overcome ...  Malinalxochitl is the Aztec Goddess of Snakes, Scorpions and Insects of the Desert. .... She slept with Poseidon in Athena's temple, so Athena punished Medusa by .... beautiful hair that had charmed her husband was changed into a venomous ...... She was transformed into a gorgon by Athena, after Poseidon and her had...
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The Gods and Goddesses of Greek Mythology - Mythweb  APHRODITE (a-fro-DYE-tee; Roman name Venus) was the goddess of love, beauty and ... The Greek hero Diomedes, who had been on the verge of killing Aeneas, ... sides in the Trojan War, the goddess of love loans Hera her magical girdle in ... The love goddess made the king's daughter Medea fall in love with Jason,...
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Persephone, Queen of the Underworld - Greeka.com  According to Greek Mythology, Persephone, the queen of the underworld, was the ... She was also called Kore, which means "maiden" and grew up to be a lovely girl ... However, Demeter had an obsessed love for her only daughter and kept all ... her feet suddenly cleaved open and through the gap Hades himself came out...
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Diana (mythology) - Wikipedia  In Roman mythology, Diana was the goddess of the hunt, the moon, and nature being .... As a goddess of hunting, Diana often wears a short tunic and hunting boots. She is often portrayed holding a bow, and carrying a quiver on her shoulder, accompanied by a deer or hunting dogs. Like Venus, she was portrayed as...
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Actaeon - Wikipedia  Actaeon in Greek mythology, son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, ... and what Artemis did: the hunter became the hunted; he was transformed into a stag, and his raging hounds, struck with a 'wolf's frenzy' (Lyssa),...
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The Story of Argus - Eyes of Argus  Zeus had turned Io into a beautiful white bovine to hide her true identity from ... Zeus beside the white heifer, claiming he just discovered the newly born cow.
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Artemis - Theoi Greek Mythology  Artemis was the ancient Greek goddess of hunting, the wilderness and wild animals. ... two gods were also bringers of sudden death and disease--Artemis targetted ... art Artemis was usually depicted as a girl or young maiden with a hunting bow ... The handsome giant Orion was a companion of the goddess but her jealous...
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Athena, Arachne and the Weaving Contest - Greek-Gods.Info  However, Arachne was a very vain girl and couldn't stop boasting about her talent. ... When Athena heard these words, she got disappointed and decided to ... At that moment, the old woman transformed herself into the radiant goddess Athena. ... Since then, the spider is cursed to be trapped inside her own web, weaving...
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A Job Fit for a Goddess - NYTimes.com  Jul 10, 1994 ... IN the mythology of early Greece, Athena is among other things the patron ... is the girl who unwisely boasted that she could outweave the goddess. Hearing of this impertinence, Athena challenged the girl to a weaving contest, the ... the basis for the scientific name for all spiders, arachnids -- is related by...
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Classical Mythology: Hades Takes a Wife: Persephone - Infoplease  Goddess Persephone becoming wife of god of Underworld Hades, despite Zeus, ... a virgin who loved to play in the fields where eternal springtime reigned. ... Hades suddenly appeared, thundering across the plain in his four-horse chariot. ... Persephone punished him for his indiscretion by turning him into a screech owl or...
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Persephone - Wikipedia  In Greek mythology, Persephone also called Kore or Cora is the daughter of Zeus and the harvest goddess Demeter, and is the queen of the underworld. ..... John Chadwick believes that these were the precursor divinities of Demeter, .... In the Olympian telling, the gods Hermes and Apollo had wooed Persephone; but...
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Medusa - Greek Mythology  She had the face of an ugly woman with snakes instead of hair; anyone who ... after being wooed by Poseidon and falling for him, she forgot her vows and married him. ... charmed her husband was changed into a venomous snake; her once gentle, ... With the curse of Athena upon her, she turned into stone whomever she...
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Classical Mythology: Hades Takes a Wife: Persephone - Infoplease  Goddess Persephone becoming wife of god of Underworld Hades, despite Zeus, ... At Zeus's suggestionor with his tacit understandingHades resolved to abduct the maiden. Persephone was gathering flowers one day on a plain in Sicily. ... four months) as Queen of the Underworld and the rest of the year with Demeter.
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Nymphs - Goddesses of Nature - Mythagora Home Page  Nymph is a general term for the goddesses who coexist with rivers, springs, ... Dionysos was so terrified of Lykurgos that he jumped into the sea to escape the ... their evening songs in praise of the goddess Artemis [goddess of the hunt]. ..... loved by the Goat-God Pan and was turned into a reed so that she could escape him.
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Eurydice in Classical Mythology - English  She fled, and in flying trod upon a snake in the grass, was bitten in the foot, and died. ... to try my strength against the three-headed dog with snaky hair who guards the ... I implore you by these abodes full of terror, these realms of silence and .... of any woman, which is why the original Orpheus in Greek mythology may have...