Quote by Artemis

"She is life and being, starry-bright, sparkling, blinding, mobile, whose sweet strangeness draws man on the more irresistibly the more disdainfully it dismisses him; an essence crystal-clear, which is nevertheless intertwined with the dark roots in all animate nature; a being childishly simple and yet incalculable, sweetly amiable and diamond-hard; girlishly demure, fleeting, elusive, and suddenly brusque and contrary; playing, frolicking, dancing, and in a flash most inexorably serious; lovingly anxious and tenderly solicitous, with the enchantment of a smile that outweighs perdition, and yet wild to the point of gruesomeness and cruel to the point of repulsiveness. All of these are traits of the free, withdrawn nature to which Artemis belongs, and in her the piously intuitive spirit has learned to perceive this eternal image of sublime femininity as a thing divine."

— Artemis

Quote Details

Added by wikiquote-import-bot

Unverified quote

0 likes

Goddesses Greek deities and spirits Sexuality and religion

Original Language: English

Available Languages (1)

English (Original)

Sources

Walter Friedrich Otto, The Homeric Gods: The Spiritual Significance of Greek Religion, trans. Moses Hadas (London: Thames and Hudson, 1954)

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Artemis

Revision History

No revisions have been submitted for this quote.

Artemis

Artemis was one of the most widely venerated of the Ancient Greek deities. In the classical period of Greek mythology, Artemis (Greek: (nominative) Ἄρτεμις, (genitive) Ἀρτέμιδος) was often described as the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. She was the Hellenic goddess of forests and hills, child birth, virginity, fertility, the hunt, and often was depicted as a huntress carrying a bow and arrows. The goddess Diana is her Roman equivalent.

25 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Artemis →