The Romans identified the original Sabine goddess Diana with the Greek Artemis and established her cult on the Aventine. (See Luca Penni’s – Diana Huntress – Louvre, Paris, and Jean Goujon’s sculpture (attributed) – Diana of Anet – Louvre, Paris.) She was worshipped at the sacred grove and lake of Nemi in Aricia, as Diana Nemorensis, and the rites practised there are the starting point for Frazer’s ‘The Golden Bough’ (see Chapter I et seq.) She hid Hippolytus, and set him down at Aricia (Nemi), as her consort Virbius. (Skelton’s ‘Diana in the leaves green, Luna who so bright doth sheen, Persephone in hell’) Callisto is one of her followers. She is worshipped as the triple goddess, as Hecate in the underworld, Luna or Cynthia the moon, in the heavens, and Diana the huntress on earth.

She was born on the island of Ortygia which is Delos (hence her epithet Ortygia). (See Michelangelo’s scenes from the Great Flood, Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome)īook IV: April 21 His association with water.ĭaughter of Jupiter and Latona (hence her epithet Latonia) and twin sister of Apollo. He and his wife Pyrrha, his cousin, and daughter of Epimetheus, were survivors of the flood. The father of Turnus.īook IV: Introduction Diomedes married his daughter Euippe.Ī commission of ten men for public or religious duties.īook IV: April 6 Ovid served in the College of Ten and was entitled to a seat at the games. The son of Jupiter by the Pleiad Electra, and origin of the Trojan people.īook I: January 11 Book VI: Introduction Dardanian=Trojan.īook IV: Introduction An ancestor of Romulus.

Fasti by Ovid