Deity · Individual

Diana

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Canonical name: Diana
Disambiguator: None
Kind: Deity
Scope: Individual
Editorial note: A supernatural healer and teacher in Apollo’s sanctuary; classified conservatively because the source does not explicitly call her a deity.

Aliases

Diana of the golden reins

Epithet · Reported

archer-queen Diana

Title · Remembered

Diana of the golden throne

Epithet · Remembered

archer goddess

Title · Remembered

rushing huntress of the golden arrows

Epithet · Direct

patroness of wild beasts

Title · Direct

Location presence

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temple of Apollo at Pergamus1 observation

·Direct

Diana healed Aeneas within the mighty sanctuary.

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“There, within the mighty sanctuary, Latona and Diana healed him”

Callicolone1 observation

·Direct

Diana takes her seat with the opposing gods on the brow of Callicolone.

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“the other gods seated themselves on the brow of Callicolone round you, O Phoebus, and Mars the waster of cities”

house of Jove1 observation

·Direct

Diana reaches the house of Jove and sits on her father’s knees.

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“Diana had now reached Jove’s bronze-floored mansion on Olympus, and sat herself down with many tears on the knees of her father”

Olympus1 observation

·Direct

Diana reaches Jove’s mansion on Olympus.

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“Diana had now reached Jove’s bronze-floored mansion on Olympus”

Claims

·Direct

Diana taught Scamandrius to kill every kind of wild creature bred in mountain forests.

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“Diana herself had taught him how to kill every kind of wild creature that is bred in mountain forests,”

·Direct

Diana helps heal Aeneas and make him glorious.

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“Latona and Diana healed him and made him glorious to behold,”

·Reported

Glaucus says Diana killed Laodameia in anger.

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“his daughter was killed by Diana of the golden reins, for she was angered with her”

·Remembered

Andromache remembers Diana killing her mother in Priam’s house.

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“the archer-queen Diana took her in the house of your father”

·Reported

Phoenix says Diana punishes Oeneus by sending the boar and then setting the peoples to fight over its head and hide.

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“Diana of the golden throne was angry and did them hurt because Oeneus had not offered her his harvest first-fruits. The other gods had all been feasted with hecatombs, but to the daughter of great Jove alone he had made no sacrifice. He had forgotten her, or somehow or other it had escaped him, and this was a grievous sin. Thereon the archer goddess in her displeasure sent a prodigious creature against him—a savage wild boar with great white tusks that did much harm to his orchard lands, uprooting apple-trees in full bloom and throwing them to the ground. But Meleager son of Oeneus got huntsmen and hounds from many cities and killed it—for it was so monstrous that not a few were needed, and many a man did it stretch upon his funeral pyre. On this the goddess set the Curetes and the Aetolians fighting furiously about the head and skin of the boar”

·Direct

Diana is called the rushing huntress of the golden arrows, and a dance is held in her honour.

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“Diana the rushing huntress of the golden arrows”

·Hypothetical

Achilles imagines Diana’s arrow slaying Briseis at the ships.

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“it would have been better, had Diana’s arrow slain her at the ships”

·Direct

Diana appears as an archer goddess among the divinities joining Troy.

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“Mars of gleaming helmet joined the Trojans, and with him Apollo of locks unshorn, and the archer goddess Diana, Leto, Xanthus, and laughter-loving Venus”

·Direct

Diana bears golden arrows and stands against Juno.

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“the archergoddess Diana with her golden arrows, sister of far-darting Apollo, stood to face Juno”

·Direct

Diana, huntress and patroness of wild beasts, angrily taunts Apollo for retreating and leaving his bow idle.

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“his sister the huntress Diana, patroness of wild beasts, was very angry with him and said, ‘So you would fly, Far-Darter, and hand victory over to Neptune with a cheap vaunt to boot. Baby, why keep your bow thus idle?”

·Reported

Juno says Jove made Diana a lion among women with power to kill them and contrasts this with her mountain pursuit of wild beasts and deer.

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“Jove made you as a lion among women, and lets you kill them whenever you choose. You will find it better to chase wild beasts and deer upon the mountains”

·Direct

Diana wriggles under Juno’s blows, sheds her swift arrows, and flees weeping like a dove before a falcon, leaving her weapons behind.

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“Diana wriggled and writhed under her blows. Her swift arrows were shed upon the ground, and she fled weeping from under Juno’s hand as a dove that flies before a falcon to the cleft of some hollow rock, when it is her good fortune to escape. Even so did she fly weeping away, leaving her bow and arrows behind her.”

·Direct

Diana reaches Jove’s bronze-floored mansion, sits in tears upon her father’s knees, and her ambrosial raiment quivers around her.

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“Diana had now reached Jove’s bronze-floored mansion on Olympus, and sat herself down with many tears on the knees of her father, while her ambrosial raiment was quivering all about her.”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

·Direct

“Latona and Diana healed him”

·Reported

“Diana of the golden reins”

·Remembered

“Diana of the golden throne”

·Remembered

“The other gods had all been feasted with hecatombs, but to the daughter of great Jove alone he had made no sacrifice.”

·Remembered

“the archer goddess”

·Hypothetical

“had Diana’s arrow slain her at the ships”

·Direct

“the archer goddess Diana”

·Direct

“the fair-crowned goddess of the chase answered”

·Remembered

“Diana slew the daughters”