Artemis
Apollo's twin sister, Artemis (Diana of the Roman era) was another deity with deep and diverse roots in old
antiquity. She is primarily associated with wild beasts, hunting, the Moon, and thus nature in general; as such
she is also a protectress of the young, both among animals and humans. Her iconography on coinage is usually that
of a slender huntress, her hair raised, with a bow and arrow, sometimes accompanied by animals. The magnitude of her veneration
is punctuated by of the seven
world wonders, the Artemision of Ephesos, which was a temple dedicated to her - a rare distinction among the Olympians,
shared with her by the supreme deity Zeus alone.