Diananoun
/daɪˈæn.ə//daɪˈæn.ə/in Roman mythology (= ancient stories), a goddess (= female god) who is usually shown as a hunter with a bow and arrows:
the Temple of Diana
See also
Artemis
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- The goddess Artemis was known by the Romans as Diana.
- The painter portrayed her as Diana, goddess of hunting.
- The hunter Actaeon stumbled upon the chaste goddess Diana and her nymphs bathing naked in the woods.
- In pre-Christian times, the Pont d'Alma area had been the site of a pagan temple of the goddess Diana.
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