In my literacy class, we learned about Greek mythology and how it connect to our modern day. Every student was assigned to a god and needed to research more about that god like the myth that he/she has. We was scored by these five categories:
- Reading and Answering: “Ancient Greece: The Birthplace of Western Individualism”
- Character Profile: You should create some sort of tangible visual about your Greek character.
- Research Report: You will create a 7-paragraph informational report on assigned character.
- Suitcase Symbolism: If your character was going on a journey, what would they take? Your “suitcase” should include at least 5 items that represent something of significance.
- Deity Discussion: We will have a “godly” discussion to finalize this project.
Below there is my research report:
Artemis Diana is the Greek goddess of the hunt, virginity, childbirth, the moon, and natural environment. Her special powers contain perfect shoots, the ability to turn herself and others into animals, healing, and have control of nature. Artemis usually spends most of her time in the forest hunting and practicing her archery.
She is Apollo twin sister and they were the children of Zeus and Leto. She is the goddess of virginity so she rejected marriage and love but she was once in love with Orion and she doesn’t have any children.
For nine days and nine nights Leto was suffering from the pains, until on the tenth day, Leto went close to a small lake called “Delos”, leaned against a palm tree, take out her belt and gave birth to Artemis. Than Artemis act as a midwife to help her mother and bring her brother Apollo to life. She was calm as the new goddess of the childbirth. At the age of three years old she asked her father Zeus for six wishes. The six wishes include to never get married, to be popular than Apollo, to have a bow and arrows that are made by the Cyclopes and a knee-length hunting tunic, to bring light to the world, to have sixty nymphs for friends, and to have all the mountains as her territory.
Artemis usually is shown as a girl wearing knee-length hunting hunic and carries bow and arrow with her at all time. There would be a creature animals next to her like deer or bear as a protector.
Artemis has a celebration called the 6th. The 6th is when every day on the 6th in each month people will gather around this city called Callimachus and give the gift or offering to Artemis. People in Callimachus called Artemis the watcher of the street because she is the sponsor of the city.
Orion was one of Artemis’ best friend. These two friends loved to hunt together. One day Apollo was jealous of Orion that he was closed with his twin. So Apollo trick Artemis by testing her ability to shoot far distance with a blurry object. Artemis did a perfect shot and shots Orion on the head with her arrow. That’s how Apollo trick her to kill her love once and best friends.
Her strength is physically strong, able to defend herself and is the guardian of women in childbirth and of wildlife in general. On the other hand, her weakness is disliking men. She also has an area to own which she can the way she wanted to. She has a lot of powers and one of advantage is that she does have to care about that drama in love life. Artemis can live her life of hunting and protect forest life.
