~ DIANA  id+ | CHASTITY |
         for etymology see> DIA
  this entry is part B
  for part A see> ARTEMIS
  DIANA is distinct from ARTEMIS  SELENE  LUNA
  myth> AS THE TWIN SISTER OF APOLLO
        HER SYMBOL WAS THE MOON
  HER TWIN BROTHER APOLLO PERSONIFIED THE SUN
  LATER SHE WAS RECOGNIZED AS AN INFLUENCE ON
  VEGETAL ANIMAL AND HUMAN LIFE
  DIANA AND APOLLO PERSONIFY DUAL MEANING
  AS SELENE or LUNA DIANA REPRESENTS THE ORB OF NIGHT
  as HELIOS or APOLLO STANDS FOR THE ORB OF DAY
  AS ARTEMIS DIANA REPRESENTS A LIFE GODDESS REFLECTED
  IN HER MULTIPLE NAMES THAT UNDERSCORE HER OMNIPRESENCE
  AGROTORA linked to HUNTING
  KALLISTE           ARCADIA  sug> KALYDONIAN BEAR
                     ARCADIAN PEOPLE or BEAR PEOPLE
  DIKTYNNA           MARINE TIDES
  BRITOMARTIS        MARINE TIDES
  POTAMIA            RIVERS             sug> MESOPOTAMIA
  ARETHUSA           BEAUTY and SPRINGS
  ARTEMIS            VIRGINITY  MODESTY
  MUNYCHIA           ATHENS
  BRAURORIA          A TEMPLE ON THE ACROPOLIS OF ATHENS
  DIANA              ROME BUILT SEVERAL TEMPLES FOR HER
  SELENE             MOON or LUNA
  ORTHIA             SPARTA and symb of PUNISHMENT
  ORTHOSIA           same as ORTHIA
  LIMNAIA            MARSHES
  AMARYNTIA          same as EUBEOEA
  EUBEOEA            BEAR
  LEUKOPHRYNE        NAME OF ARTEMIS IN PHRYGIA AND MAGNESIA
  EILEITHYIA         same as ILITHIA
  ILITHIA            CHILDBIRTH  same name also GIVEN TO HERA
  art>  ON ATTIC POTTERY or AMPHORAE
        DIANA IS OFTEN SHOWN AS ARTEMIS or
  THE MISTRESS OF BEASTS
  WITH A QUIVER ON HER SHOULDER AND
  HOLDING SOME DEAD BEAST
  ancient Roman MOSAICS from the
  Piazza Armenina in Casale Sicily show DIANA
  during a HUNTING PARTY
  TITIAN [#] painted DIANA in "DEATH of ACTAEON "
  depicting the horrible event of DIANA determining
  his death by his own dogs see> ACTAEON
  TASSI in " DIANA and CALLISTO " shows her as
  THE VIRGIN GODDESS WHO DISCOVERED THAT
  CALLISTO WAS PREGNANT by ZEUS and for it
  she who was transformed into a BEAR later to become
  the constellation BIG BEAR or URSA MAJOR   see> CALLISTO
  Pierre August RENOIR [#] 1841-1919 painted A PLUMP DIANA
  REMINISCENT OF THE TYPE OF WOMEN PAINTED BY RUBENS
  note a modern ATTRACTIVE AND WELL KNOWN STATUE
       IN GUILDED BRONZE BY THE AMERICAN ARTIST
  Augustus SAINT GAUDENS [#] 1848-1907 on display at the
  Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York and
  another larger version by the Philadelphia Art Musiem
  biol> DIANELLA is a name for organisms of various species incl
        a large African monkey CERCOPHIHECUS DIANA
  for more see> ABSINTHE  see> WORMWOOD
  see> ARTEMIS for part A
  cont> in addenda under development see> ~& DIANA