Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Artemis.
The gallery
Diana of Versailles
Roman copy after Leochares, 1st–2nd century AD
A marble statue of the huntress goddess striding beside a small deer, reaching over her shoulder toward her quiver — a Roman copy associated with a Greek original attributed to Leochares. Long a fixture of the French royal collections, it is displayed at the Louvre, Paris.
Diana and Actaeon
Titian, 1556–1559
An oil painting of the fatal moment when the hunter Actaeon stumbles upon Diana and her nymphs bathing at a spring, the goddess's outraged glance already sealing his doom. One of Titian's celebrated poesie painted for Philip II of Spain, it is jointly owned by the National Gallery, London, and the National Galleries of Scotland.
The Lady of Ephesus
Unknown (Ephesian cult statue), 1st century AD
A marble cult statue of Artemis in her distinctive Ephesian form, the torso covered with rows of oval protuberances and the tight skirt paneled with rows of animals. The image embodies the Anatolian mother-goddess aspect of Artemis worshipped at her great temple in Ephesus. It is preserved in the Ephesus Archaeological Museum.
On screen
In play
Hades
Supergiant Games
Artemis' boons are crit and seek — the huntress as a clean shot from Olympus, cool-voiced and exact while Zagreus runs.
Hades II
Supergiant Games
She remains among the Olympian hunters in the sequel, still the goddess of the clean kill as Melinoë takes the field.