ABSTRACT
The chapter begins with how Artemis first came into contact with the Romans by way of Etruscan Artumes and thus became Diana. From the Roman conquest of Greece onward, it was Roman Diana, rather than Greek Artemis, who was prominent in the religion, arts, and culture of western Europe. The popular culture of twenty-first-century America, no literary character better embodies the character of ancient Artemis than Katniss Everdeen of Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games trilogy. In the Games, Collins specifically describes Katniss's weapons (bow and arrows) as silver,20 a reference to Roman Diana's lunar qualities, but still Artemisian. The prominence of the city of Ephesos in the cult of Artemis cannot be overestimated. It should perhaps not be surprising, then, that when the new religion of Christianity started making its way out across the Levant and Roman Empire, Ephesos would prove problematic for the new cult.
