God · Greek
Artemis
Artemis, a god of the Greek world, and the gods ancient sources said were the same.
Tradition: greek
Documented identifications
| Link | Who said so | Note |
|---|---|---|
| identified as Bastet | Herodotus, Histories 2.137 and 2.156, c. 430 BCE | The cat goddess of Bubastis, whose festival was the greatest in Egypt, "is, in the Greek language, Artemis". |
| identified as Diana | Roman lectisternium of the twelve gods, 217 BCE (Livy 22.10) | Diana shared a couch with her brother Apollo, as Artemis did in Greece. |
| identified as Hecate | Greek religion from the 5th c. BCE | Hecate was frequently equated with Artemis in the classical world. |
| identified as Isis | Ptolemaic Egypt | Through Bastet, Isis was linked with the lunar Artemis. |
| adopted as Aritimi | Etruscan Orientalizing period, 7th c. BCE | Aritimi is Artemis taken into the Etruscan pantheon. |