Artemis was The daughter of Leto and Zeus, and the twin of Apollo. Artemis is the goddess of the wilderness, the hunt ,and fertility. Artemis was one of the Olympians and a virgin goddess. Her main vocation was to roam mountain forests and uncultivated land with her nymphs in attendance hunting for lions, panthers, hinds and stags. Contradictory to the later, she helped in protecting and seeing to their well-being, also their safety. She was armed with a bow and arrows which were made by Hephaestus and the Cyclopes.
Artemis was a divinity of healing, but also brought and spread diseases such as leprosy, rabies and even gout.