# Artemis — Poetry character guide

> Artemis in Poetry by Oscar Wilde.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0039-the-garden-of-eros

## Who they are

The Greek goddess of the hunt and wilderness.

## In the story

### [Θρηνῳδία](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_18_se/chapters/chapter)

Invoked as a goddess and queen and maiden, whose hunting and golden hair the captive women may sing of in Delos.

### [Άντιστροφή](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_18_se/chapters/chapter)

The speaker imagines singing of Artemis, the goddess and queen and maiden, her hunting, arrows, and bow, to find solace.

### [The Burden of Itys](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_18_se/chapters/the-burden-of-itys)

Unravished Artemis bade her hounds give tongue and roused the deer from his green ambuscade.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_18_se/chapters/ii)

Venus suspects Artemis (or Athena) of killing the lovers; later a goddess (likely Artemis) kills the Dryad with an arrow.

### [III: Camma](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_18_se/chapters/iii-camma)

Mentioned as the goddess in whose midmost shrine Camma stands.

### [Humanitad](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_18_se/chapters/humanitad)

Referenced as 'huntress deadlier than Artemis' in renouncing love.

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