Artemis, the “Mistress of Animals”, is associated with hunting and the wilderness. The poet Callimachus wrote a long hymn detailing how a young Artemis acquired her responsibilities. Famously, Artemis does not take kindly to mortal men and I retell a few of those stories. The ones involving Orion are the most interesting and show a more complicated side to Artemis.
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Myth Madness: A Mythology Podcast
Myths from around the world with some history on the civilizations that told them