Artemis

Goddess of the Wild

von E L Hunter

198 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The eternal virgin was the goddess women screamed for in childbirth.

And that was the least of her contradictions. We remember the huntress, bow drawn, loping through the forest with her hounds. But the goddess who dealt swift death also protected the wild. She turned the hunter Actaeon into a stag for the crime of seeing her bathe, and let his own hounds tear him apart. She loosed her fury on a Greek king for killing a deer in her sacred grove. Behind the graceful Olympian stood something older and stranger still, a Bronze Age Mistress of Animals whose name may not even be Greek.

This book follows Artemis across more than three thousand years, in all her forms: the many-breasted idol of Ephesus, housed in one of the Seven Wonders of the World; the Spartan altar where boys were whipped bloody in her honour; the Roman Diana of the murderous sacred grove. It asks how a single goddess could hold so many opposites at once, and why she still speaks so clearly now, to a world trying to decide how to live with a wild it can neither master nor do without.

• ISBN: 9798296657503
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 05.08.2025
• Größe: 279 x 216 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp