Artemis (DC Comics) animals. Artemis (DC Comics) Artemis is a character in DC Comics. She is based on the Greek goddess of the same name. Artemis first appeared in "Wonder Woman" #4. Artemis is the Goddess of Wild Animals, the Hunt, and the Moon as well as the twin sister of Apollo. She had a hand in helping her fellow Gods into bringing Queen Hippolyta's sculpture of a little girl to life which played into the origin of Wonder Woman. Queen Hippolyta named her daughter after Artemis' alias. It was also mentioned that Artemis gave her keen eyes like a hunter. On Earth-Two,
Pirene (mythology) early summer. The fountain was sacred to the Muses and it was there that Bellerophon found Pegasus (as Polyidus had claimed), drinking, and tamed him. Pirene (mythology) In Greek mythology, Pirene or Peirene (Ancient Greek: Πειρήνη means "of the osiers"), a nymph, was either the daughter of the river god Asopus, Laconian king Oebalus, or the River god Achelous, depending on different sources. By Poseidon she became the mother of Lecheas and Cenchrias. When Cenchrias was unintentionally killed by Artemis, Pirene's grief was so profound that she became nothing but tears and turned into the fountain outside the gates of