Artemis Artemis is not fully related in any surviving myth. The "Iliad" reduced the figure of the dread goddess to that of a girl, who, having been thrashed by Hera, climbs weeping into the lap of Zeus. A poem by Callimachus to the goddess "who amuses herself on mountains with archery" imagines some charming vignettes. Artemis, while sitting on the knee of her father, Zeus, asked him to grant her several wishes: Artemis believed that she had been chosen by the Fates to be a midwife, particularly since she had assisted her mother in the delivery of her twin brother, Apollo.
Temple of Artemis Amarynthia of Amarynthos on the Greek island of Euboea, about 10km from the place where the temple was wrongly thought to be located. The remains has revealed structures from the 6th-century to the second BC, containing an underground fountain, inscribed bases, sealed tiles, and coins containing the name "Artemis". Temple of Artemis Amarynthia The Temple of Artemis Amarynthia was a sanctuary in Amarynthos in Euboea, dedicated to the goddess Artemis. It was a significant shrine of Artemis and arguably the foremost center of her cult in Northern Greece. Archeological excavations reveal the date of founding to the 6th-century BC. The sanctuary