CHAPTER TWO

ARTEMIS /

There exist two distinct traditions of archaistic . She is prominent among the Olympian deities which are as a group first given archaistic form on Neo-Attic reliefs, where she is closely related to . 1 Such similarity must be related to the fact that both the warlike Athena and Artemis the huntress are goddesses of action. 2 This type of archaistic Artemis finds expression in round statuary only in the Pompeii Artemis type which, as is shown below, has a strong martial association. The se• cond form of archaistic Artemis derives from her close association with Hekate, perhaps the earliest deity archaized. The two goddesses share an archaistic form at least as early as the fourth century B. C.; that their as• similation is complete by the time of the is shown by the archaistic image of Diana Nemorensis known from late Republican coins. It is with the somewhat more complex Artemis-Hekate types that we begin.

I. Artemis-Hekate

A. Artemis and Hekate The association of Hekate with Artemis was both intimate and early. Kraus has cited Homer's use of the "tKato~" for and Hekate's prominence in Apollo's early cult at Miletos as evidence for a Carian dyad of Hekatos and Hekate soon Hellenized as Apollo and Arte• mis. 3 An early goddess Hekate is also mentioned by Hesiod as a first cou• sin to the Letoidae. 4 An alternative to Kraus' view sees in l:Ka,o~ and EK

1 As seen on the Athens-Delos relief type, ca.100 B.C., the two figures are nearly in• terchangeable with the necessary modifications in attributes. Cf. Fullerton 1987, 275. Supra p.10. 2 Artemis and Athena are also alike in being unmarried and always shown fully clothed, most often in a peplos, although Artemis as huntress usually wears a short chiton. 3 Kraus 1960, 11-13. For Artemis-Hekate and the related Artemis-Enodia: LIMC II (1984) 686-689 (L. Kahil). Also on Enodia: A. Pantos, Archaiognosia 2 (1981) 96-106. 4 Hesiod, Theog. 404-452. 5 K. Wernicke, s.v. "Artemis," RE 2 1 1336-1440, especially 1356-1357. Hecken• bach, s.v. "Hekate," RE 72 2769-2782. 14 ARTEMIS / DIANA tionship between the two deities is certainly established by the early fifth century, when the chorus in Aischylos' Suppliants (l.676) invokes Artemis• Hekate as protectress of childbirth. Their later association is underlined by a frequent sharing of and attributes. The torch, held by Hekate in the Archaic Homeric Hymn to (ll.51-58), is connected with Artemis in the fifth century in literature, sculpture, and vase• painting. 6 In Euripides' Phoenissae (l.109) Antigone invokes, "iro 1t6tvta 1tai Aawu~ 'EKci'ta." Early representations of Hekate show a girlish peplophoros indistin• guishable iconographically from Artemis. 7 With the erection of the Hekate Epipyrgidia on the Athena Nike bastion c. 425, the archaistic triple-bodied Hekataion is established as a virtually canonical form for this goddess, who becomes one of the first deities to be archaized. 8 In Late Classical times, at least one statue of Artemis resembles the type of the Epipyrgidia in single-bodied form, although the archaistic details are suppressed. Similar figures, both small scale and large, are common in the Hellenistic and Roman era - especially, although not exclusively, in the eastern Aegean. Where their identity can be surmised, these too represent Artemis or Artemis-Hekate.9 Their stylistic development mirrors that of the numerous contemporary triple-bodied Hekataia. That the Romans identified Hekate with Diana, sometimes in triple-bodied form, is obvious already in Republican and Augustan poetry. Catullus ( Carm. 34) refers to "Diana Trivia," and Vergil (Aen. IV,511) mentions "tergeminam Heca• tem." (Carm. 111,22) calls Diana "diva triformis." Meanwhile, the production of triple-bodied hekataia continues undiminished through• out the Roman Imperial era. 10

6 Sophokles, Tr. 214, presents Artemis as both archer and torchbearer. 0. T. 207 im• plies her fire-wielding nature. Aristophanes, Lys. 443, calls her "q>o0