Details of Diana personified on coins
Diana was the goddess of wild-life and hunting. She is often be identified by her attributes – a bow and arrow or quiver of arrows.
As the moon-goddess (the brother of Apollo the sun-god) she is sometimes named Diana Lucifera (meaning ‘Diana the light-bringer’) and shown with a crescent moon above her head and holding a torch.
Diana is not a common subject on coins, but does appear occasionally from Republican times until the mid 3rd century AD.
Attributes
- Bow and arrow
- Quiver of arrows
Greek counterpart
Diana can be identified with the Greek deity Artemis
Wikipedia derived information
Artemis was one of the most widely venerated of the Ancient Greek deities.
Her Roman equivalent is Diana. Some scholars believe that the name, and indeed the goddess herself, was originally pre-Greek. Homer refers to her as Artemis Agrotera, Potnia Theron "Artemis of the wildland, Mistress of Animals".
In the classical period of Greek mythology, Artemis was often described as the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. She was the Hellenic goddess of the hunt, wild animals, wilderness, childbirth, virginity and young girls, bringing and relieving disease in women; she often was depicted as a huntress carrying a bow and arrows. The deer and the cypress were sacred to her.
In later Hellenistic times, she even assumed the ancient role of Eileithyia in aiding childbirth. Artemis later became identified with Selene, a Titaness who was a Greek moon goddess, sometimes depicted with a crescent moon above her headied She was also identified with the Roman goddess Diana, with the Etruscan goddess Artume, and with the Greek or Carian goddess Hecate..
God of: Goddess of the Hunt, Forests and Hills, the Moon
Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis
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