Diana

Also known as: archer-queen / the archer goddess · Family: Olympians · Role: goddess · First appears: BOOK V

🌐 Also appears in: Greek Mythology — A Family Orrery (as Artemis) · The Odyssey (as Diana) · The Aeneid (as Diana) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Diana) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Artemis)

In BOOK V, at Pergamus, Latona and Diana heal Aeneas, making him glorious to behold. Diana has also taught Scamandrius how to hunt wild creatures in mountain forests.

In BOOK VI, Diana kills Laodameia’s daughter because she is angered with her. In BOOK IX, angered that Oeneus did not offer her the first-fruits of his harvest, she brings harm; Jove is named as her parent. In BOOK XX, she enters the conflict between Trojans and Achaeans, standing against Juno; she is the sister of Apollo. In BOOK XXI, Juno defeats her and takes her bow. In BOOK XXIV, Diana kills Niobe’s daughters because Niobe had vaunted herself against Leto.

Relationship record

Life events

• Apollo takes Aeneas to Pergamus, where Latona and Diana heal him.(BOOK V · 📍 Pergamus)
  • With: Aeneas Apollo Leto
  • “There, within the mighty sanctuary, Latona and Diana healed him and made him glorious to behold, while Apollo of the silver bow fashioned a wraith in the likeness of Aeneas, and armed as he was.”
• The gods choose sides and enter the conflict between Trojans and Achaeans.(BOOK XX)
  • With: Juno Minerva Neptune Mercury Vulcan Mars Apollo Leto Scamander Venus
  • “Thus spoke Jove and gave the word for war, whereon the gods took their several sides and went into battle.”
• Juno beats Diana and strips away her bow and arrows.(BOOK XXI · 📍 Olympus)
  • With: Juno
  • “She caught both Diana’s wrists with her left hand as she spoke, and with her right she took the bow from her shoulders”

BOOK V

• with Aeneas (interaction) “Latona and Diana healed him and made him glorious to behold”
• pupil: Scamandrius son of Strophius “Diana herself had taught him how to kill every kind of wild creature that is bred in mountain forests”

BOOK VI

• with Laodameia (Diana killed Laodameia.) “his daughter was killed by Diana of the golden reins, for she was angered with her”

BOOK IX

• parent: Jove “For Diana of the golden throne was angry and did them hurt because Oeneus had not offered her his harvest first-fruits”
• with Oeneus (interaction) “For Diana of the golden throne was angry and did them hurt because Oeneus had not offered her his harvest first-fruits”

BOOK XX

• siblings with Apollo (Diana is Apollo’s sister.) “the archer goddess Diana with her golden arrows, sister of far-darting Apollo”
• enemies with Juno (Diana faces Juno.) “the archer goddess Diana with her golden arrows, sister of far-darting Apollo, stood to face Juno”

BOOK XXI

• parent: Jove “Diana had now reached Jove’s bronze-floored mansion on Olympus, and sat herself down with many tears on the knees of her father”
• parent: Leto “Leto then gathered up Diana’s bow and arrows that had fallen about amid the whirling dust, and when she had got them she made all haste after her daughter.”
• enemies with Juno “She caught both Diana’s wrists with her left hand as she spoke, and with her right she took the bow from her shoulders, and laughed as she beat her with it about the ears”
• siblings with Apollo “But his sister the huntress Diana, patroness of wild beasts, was very angry with him”

BOOK XXIV

• enemies with Niobe “Diana slew the daughters, because Niobe had vaunted herself against Leto”
• parent: Leto “Diana slew the daughters, because Niobe had vaunted herself against Leto”
• with Niobe (interaction) “Diana slew the daughters, because Niobe had vaunted herself against Leto”

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