ABSTRACT
When the Romans conquered the Greeks at the end of the Hellenistic Age, Greek Artemis was syncretized with, and subsumed into, Roman Diana in the European west. Henceforth most of Europe would know the Roman lunar goddess far better than the Greek huntress, and the two would never again really have separate identities. What follows is a very brief survey of what happened to Greek Artemis (and often Diana) after the heyday of Greek powers, including her interactions with that new religion—Christianity—in Ephesos, what the Renaissance thinkers thought of her, and how she came to influence the modern arts and literature. We begin with how Artemis first came into contact with the Romans by way of Etruscan Artumes and thus became Diana.
