Temple of Artemis image carried through the streets and surrounded by maidens. In the Roman Imperial era, the emperor Commodus lent his name to the festival games, and might have sponsored them. From the Greek point of view, the Ephesian Artemis is a distinctive form of their goddess Artemis. In Greek cult and myth, Artemis is the twin of Apollo, a virgin huntress who supplanted the Titan Selene as goddess of the Moon. At Ephesus, a goddess whom the Greeks associated with Artemis was venerated in an archaic, pre-Hellenic cult image that was carved of wood (a "xoanon") and kept decorated with jewelry.
Minerva Berlin Minerva Berlin Minerva 93 Berlin is a German association football club from the district of Moabit in the city of Berlin. The club was established 10 May 1893 as "Berliner Fußball Club Minerva" taking its name from the Roman goddess of wisdom. A merger with "Wilmersdorfer FC Frühling" in 1896 led to the club taking on the name "Sport-Club Minerva 93 Berlin". In 1900, the team played a single season as part of the Freie Berliner Fußballvereinigung (FBF), one of several early competing top tier leagues in Berlin. They were joined in 1904 by "Berolina Moabit" – also part of