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.
Elvis's Twin Sister Elvis's Twin Sister "Elvis's Twin Sister" is a frequently cited poem by Carol Ann Duffy that is said to reflect "the hidden lives of generations of overlooked women" as part of the collection "The World's Wife", of 30 similar poems dealing with the female relatives of famous men throughout history. The poem is sometimes studied by schoolchildren in the United Kingdom as part of the AQA syllabus for GCSE English. The poem's subtitle, "Are You Lonesome Tonight?", was a 1961 hit by Elvis Presley. Its opening line, "In the convent, y'all", establishes its speaker in the southern United States through