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Muse, sing of Artemis, sister of the far shooter, the Virgin who delights in arrows, who was fostered with Apollo.

She waters her horses from mele's deep in reads and swiftly drives her all golden chariot through smirna to vine-clad clarros, where Apollo, God of the silver bow, sits waiting for the far shooting goddess who delights in arrows.

And so hail to you, Artemis, in my song and to all goddesses as well. Of you first, I sing, and with you I begin, now that I have begun with you, I will turn to another song.

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Hello, this is Let's Talk About Miss Baby, and I'm your host, Liv, she who loves a fucking angry and sometimes righteous goddess.

Today I bring you an episode in honor of the very earliest days of the podcast. Some notions that I covered, oh so briefly, or glossed over, or missed entirely. This begins a month's worth of episodes bringing us back to my roots.

Angry goddesses, problematic heroes, you know, the good stuff.

I was meant to begin a new series on stories of Heracles that I haven't told you yet on the podcast, but I'm waiting for the delivery of a new book, an enormous and far too expensive book dedicated entirely to that hero turned God, so we will begin with him next week, I hope.

There's so much to Heracles that I haven't yet shared, I'm so looking forward to it, but I need that book. It cost way too much for me to leave it behind.

Due to that delay, I had to kind of scramble for today's episode, but then it occurred to me. There are stories of the goddess of the hunt, and her sometimes righteous, often not anger, her punishment of men who wronged her and others who did some other things, stories that I haven't yet told on the podcast.

Artemis deserves better, and I'm here to give it to her. Today, I'm going to tell you all about this goddess of the hunt, the bad assery that is Artemis, and all the men, gods, and sometimes women, she punished for incurring her wrath.

This is episode 154, sing Goddess of the Wrath of the Goddess of the Hunt, Artemis, who loves to fuck shit up.

Artemis Diana, goddess of the hunt of the protection of young girls of so-called virginity.

What Artemis really was was a goddess of freedom for women, freedom of choice of a desire not to be married and let that dictate your entire life.

Artemis is called a virgin goddess, the virgin goddess really, but that doesn't mean what we think it means today. Ultimately, it means she wasn't married, not necessarily that she'd never had sex with men or women or whoever. She was just unmarried.

That applies to Artemis, Athena, Hestia too. We call them virgins, maidens, but it isn't about their sexuality in the way that it seems now, it was about their status.

They didn't marry, and oh, all the respect in the world to them for that. The passage I read at the top of the episode was one of the Homeric hymns to Artemis. She, who delights in arrows.

Homer called her Artemis Ayokhiara, she, who showers down arrows.

Now, what isn't necessarily implicit in Artemis' status as an unmarried, quote-unquote, virgin goddess is her sexuality.

I've mentioned this before, even had guests on the show to talk about it, but my stance on Artemis' sexuality, whether she was straight, gay, somewhere in between, is that she is what you want or need her to be.

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