Artemis: Goddess of the Hunt

The Ancients

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🗓️ 17 March 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Artemis is best known as the goddess of the Hunt. But she is far more than just the famed huntress of Greek mythology - she is the patron of the wilderness, of wild animals, of childbirth and also chastity. Daughter of the gods Zeus and Leto, she is famed for her lust for divine retribution and her prowess with a bow, a trait she shares with her twin brother Apollo.

In today’s episode of The Ancients, Tristan Hughes continues our Gods and Goddesses series as we delve into one of the most fascinating and fickle goddesses of the Greek pantheon. He is joined by Jasmine Elmer as they discuss Artemis’s relationship with her brother, explore the importance of her virginity to her followers and discover she turns one of her favourite hunters into a stag.

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The Senior Producer was Elena Guthrie. Script written by Andrew Hulse. Voiceover performed by Nichola Woolley. The Assistant Producer was Joseph Knight. Edited and Mixed by Aidan Lonergan.

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0:00.0	As a new teacher, you prepare as much as you can.
0:03.0	You've got your lesson plans, but life doesn't always go to plan.
0:06.0	So you learn to think on your feet.
0:08.0	And students are really good at making you do that.
0:10.0	Though actually, when things do go wrong, it's your subject knowledge and the relationships
0:14.4	you've built with your class that you fall back on. The confidence you get from that stays
0:18.5	really long after school ends.
0:21.6	Every lesson shapes a life.
0:23.0	Start shaping yours with a minimum starting salary of 30,000 pounds.
0:27.0	Search, get into teaching. Sing, muses.
0:34.0	to me to make Sing, Muses.
0:44.0	Sing to me a story of Olympus and the deathless gods who govern earth, sea, and sky.
0:50.0	So asks the priestess of Taurus, she is an unlikely executioner, young and beautiful.
0:58.0	That's clear even through the veil.
1:00.6	But all the resties can focus on is the knife glinting in her hand.
1:05.0	He came to Taurus to fulfill a sacred charge.
1:09.0	Steal the statue of Artemis from her temple. The gods have promised him that it is the
1:15.3	final task of his atonement, that it will bring to a close the cycle of king-killing
1:20.9	that has plagued his family.
1:23.0	Arestes who killed his mother, Klyta Mestra.
1:27.1	Klyta Mestra who killed her husband Agamemnon.
1:30.5	But A The laws of Taurus are simple.
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