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While naming your dog after a god ensures hell be well-respected at the dog park, sometimes “Zeus” or “Artemis” doesnt fit your pups goofball persona quite like your favorite Greek dish seems to.
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BOW & ARROWS OF ARTEMIS Artemis with bow and arrows, Athenian red-figure amphora C5th B.C.,
Homeric Hymn 27 to Artemis (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C7th to 4th B.C.) : “Over the shadowy hills and windy peaks she [Artemis] draws her golden bow, rejoicing in the chase, and sends out grievous shafts. The tops of the high mountains tremble and the tangled wood echoes awesomely with the outcry of beasts: earth quakes and the sea also where fishes shoal. But the goddess with a bold heart turns every way destroying the race of wild beasts : and when she is satisfied and has cheered her heart, this huntress who delights in arrows slackens her supple bow and goes to the great house of her dear brother Phoibos Apollon.”
Callimachus, Hymn 3 to Artemis 5 ff (trans. Mair) (Greek poet C3rd B.C.) : “[The child Artemis asks her father Zeus for a bow and arrows :] ‘Give me arrows and a bow–stay, Father [Zeus], I ask thee not for quiver or for mighty bow : for me the Kyklopes (Cyclopes) will straightway fashion arrows and fashion for me a well-bent bow.’ . . . And straightway she went to visit the Kyklopes . . . Therefore right boldly didst thou address them then : ‘Kyklopes, for me too fashion ye a Kydonian [of the style of Kydonia in Krete] bow and arrows and a hollow casket for my shafts; for I also am a child of Leto, even as Apollon. And if I with my bow shall slay some wild creature or monstrous beast, that shall the Kyklopes eat.’ So didst thou speak and they fulfilled thy words. Straightway dist thou array thee, O Goddess.”
Callimachus, Hymn 3 to Artemis 109 ff : “Artemis . . . golden were thine arms and golden thy belt.”
Callimachus, Hymn 3 to Artemis 111 ff : “Where first did thy horned team begin to carry thee [Artemis]? To Thrakian Haimos , whence comes the hurricane of Boreas bringing evil breath of frost to cloakless men [i.e. to obtain frost for her bow–for fever chills and crop-destroying dawn frost]. And how often goddess, didst thou make trial of thy silver bow? First at an elm, and next at an oak didst thou shoot, and third again at a wild beast. But the fourth time–not long was it ere thou didst shoot at the city of unjust me, those who to one another and those who towards strangers wrought many deeds of sin, forward men, on whom thou wilt impress thy grievous wrath. On their cattle plague feeds, on their tilth feeds frost, and the old men cut their hair in mourning over their sons, and their wives either are smitten or die in childbirth, or, if they escape, bear birds whereof none stands on upright ankle.”
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 140 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) : “Latona [Leto], clinging to an olive tree, bore Apollo and Diana [Artemis], to whom Vulcanus [Hephaistos] gave arrows as gifts [on the day of their birth].”
Ovid, Metamorphoses 3. 138 ff : “Tired after the hunt, the goddess loved her Nymphae to bathe her with the waters balm . . . she gave her spear and quiver and bow unstrung to an attendant Nympha.”
Ovid, Metamorphoses 5. 610 ff : “[Arethousa] thy hunting-nymphe Diana [Artemis] . . . whom so oft thou gavest thy bow to bear, thy arrows and thy quiver!.”
Ovid, Fasti 2. 155 ff (trans.Boyle) (Roman poetry C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) : “Callisto once belonged to the sacred circle of Hamadryades and huntress Diana [Artemis]. She touched the goddess bow : ‘this bow I touch,’ she cried, ‘Be a witness to my virginity.’ Cynthia [Artemis] praised her, and said : ‘Keep the pledge you vowed and you will be my companions princeps.”
Statius, Silvae 2. 3. 1 (trans. Mozley) (Roman poetry C1st A.D.) : “She [Diana-Artemis] drew a short shaft from her quiver, but sped it not from the bent bow or with the wonted twang, but was content to fling it with one hand, and touched–so tis said–the left hand of the drowsy Naiad [Pholoe] with the arrow-feathers [transforming her into a pond].”
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 36. 28 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) : “Highland Artemis . . . rounded her bow straight . . . and shot arrow after arrow moving through the airy vault in vain against that mark [the goddess Hera], until her quiver was empty, and the cloud [protecting Hera] still unbroken she covered thick with arrows all over.”
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48. 302 ff : “The goddess [Artemis] leapt out of her car [of her chariot]; Oupis took the bow from her shoulders, and Hekaerge the quiver . . . Loxo loosed the boots from her feet.”
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