Artemis and Actaeon
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Artemis (Diana) was the goddess of the hunt and of the moon. Like her brother Apollo, she was the daughter of Zeus and Leto, the Titaness. She was also the goddess of childbirth and, by extension, of all young creatures, because her mother gave birth to her without pain.
Ovid records in his Metamorphoses the tale in which Actaeon sees her bathing and she, in revenge, transforms him into a stag that is torn apart by his own hounds. This is a Roman source, but the origin is clearly Greek. The significance of Artemis’s creation lies in the importance she placed on her eternal virginity, which she begged Zeus to grant her when she was three years old. However, according to some sources, she takes revenge on Actaeon for boasting that he is a better hunter than she.