Artemis and Hekate in Delos: notes on religious iconography.

Abstract

Approximations, associations assimilations and syncretisms may be percieved in the image of Artemis and Hekate. In this article, some of these phenomena are studied not only in respect of these goddesses’ figures as dadophores in Attic vases of the first quarter of the fifth century B.C. and in hellenistic and roman reliefs, but also in relation to the triform representation which is characteristic of Hekate’s iconography and that, by means of borrowing, seems also to be Artemis iconographic type in the Delian monuments

Keywords

• Greece - Delos - Artemis - Hekate - Archaeology - Iconography - Religion