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Diana
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synonyms: Artemis ???
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Definition:a Roman goddess of the hunt, the Moon, and nature, associated with wild animals and woodland. She is equated with the Greek goddess Artemis, and absorbed much of Artemis' mythology early in Roman history, including a birth on the island of Delos to parents Jupiter and Latona, and a twin brother, Apollo, though she had an independent origin in Italy.Diana was known as the virgin goddess of childbirth and women. She was one of the three maiden goddesses, along with Minerva and Vesta, who swore never to marry. Oak groves and deer were especially sacred to her. Diana made up a triad with two other Roman deities; Egeria the water nymph, her servant and assistant midwife; and Virbius, the woodland god.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
photo 1: By Bengt Oberger, CC-BY-SA-3.0
image: By Ancient Roman painter(s), about 70 A.D. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68933644
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Although she scarcely knew the divinity's name, Diana was the goddess whom Bathsheba instinctively adored.
Thomas Hardy. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
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Ilagin lifted his beaver cap still higher to Natasha and said, with a pleasant smile, that the young countess resembled Diana in her passion for the chase as well as in her beauty,
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace
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While inside the castle, he came upon a statue of Diana and Endymion by Michelangelo Slodtz, one of the finest French sculptors of the Rococo period. (Another of his works, a statue of St. Bruno, can be found in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.)
Thomas J. Craughwell. Thomas Jefferson's Crème Brûlée, p.87 (2012)
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To be himself the greate harte's bane
For after Mars he serveth now Diane.
Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems
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