Britomartis
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britomartis-176-7034197
title:
Britomartis
text:
Britomartis was a Greek goddess of mountains and hunting, who was primarily worshipped on the island of Crete. She was sometimes believed to be an oread, a mountain nymph, but she was often conflated or syncretized with Artemis and Aphaea, the "invisible" patroness of Aegina. She is also known as Dictynna or as a daughter of Dictynna (Δίκτυννα). In the 16th century, the naming of a character identified with English military prowess as "Britomart" in Edmund Spenser's knightly epic The Faerie Quee
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Cretan goddess of mountains and hunting
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britomartis
date created:
2002-09-01T10:46:34Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T21:03:50Z
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