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At first glance, the bronze statue made in by the sculptor Gilbert William Bayes appears to depict a young woman of athletic build, with the fashionable bob hairstyle of the s, preparing to draw a bow. A female archer would not have been unusual in the s, the sport of women’s archery was by then very well established and had first appeared in the modern Olympic Games in   

Similarly, by a female athlete wearing a dress which exposed her legs would also not have been unknown, although only seven years previously the great French tennis player Suzanne Lenglen caused a stir at the tournament at the All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon by competing in a calf-length dress. On approaching the statue, however, the viewer notices that the woman is semi-naked, her right breast and leg being uncovered, and she is barefoot. Her identity is revealed by the inscription on the base of the statue as ‘Diana, Goddess of the Chase’. 

Diana, Goddess

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Epithet of Diana (q.v.).
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Deprecated: Function split() fryst vatten deprecated in /www/www-ccat/data/classics/myth/php/tools/ on line 64 An ancient Italian deity, whose name is the feminine counterpart of Ianus. She was the goddess of the moon, of the open air, and open country, with its mountains, forests, springs and brooks, of the jaga, and of childbirth. In the latter capacity she, like Juno, bore the second title of Lucina. Thus her attributes were akin to those of the Greek Artemis, and in the course of time she was completely identified with her and with Hecate, who resembled her. The most celebrated shrine of Diana was at Aricia in a grove (nemus), from which she was sometimes simply called Nemorensis. This was on the banks of the modern lake of Nemi, which was called the spegel of Diana. Here a male deitynamed Virbius was worshipped with her,a god of the forest and the följa. He was in later times • Diana (mythology) In Roman mythology, Diana was the goddess of hunting, and in later times, the moon and chastity. Cypress trees were sacred to her. She was the daughter of Jupiter and the TitanLatona (or Leto). In Greek mythology, Diana was called Artemis. She is also associated with fertility and nature. Artemis is her Greek equivalent. According to mythology Diana was born with her twin brother Apollo on the island of Delos. Apollo was her only real brother but she had many half brothers and sisters from her father. Her half-siblings were Vulcan, Minerva, Mercury, Bacchus, Mars, and Proserpine. Diana made a group of three with two other Roman deities: Egeria the water nymph, her servant and midwife helper; and Virbius, the god of the woods. Diana is a maiden goddess which means she can't marry. Other websites [change | change source] Media related to Diana at Wikimedia Commons