Editing Artume

{{Short description|Etruscan goddess of animals}}
'''Artume''' (also called ''Aritimi'', ''Artames'', or ''Artumes'') was an [[Etruscan mythology|Etruscan]] goddess who was the mistress of animals, goddess of human assemblies, and hunting deity of Neolithic origin. Etruscans later appropriated the Greek goddess [[Artemis]].<ref>As Artimi, see Denise Demetriou, ''Negotiating Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean: The Archaic and Classical Greek Multiethnic Emporia'' (Cambridge University Press, 2012), 70. 
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And {{cite book |title=Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend 
|last=Thomson de Grummond |first=Nancy 
|year=2006 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 
|isbn=978-1-931707-86-2
|pages=12, 51, 99–103, 130–32, 141, 149, 158}} Referred to as "Artumes".</ref> Aritimi was also considered the founder of the Etruscan town Aritie which is today the Italian town [[Arezzo]].<ref>Pittau, Massimo (2006). ''Toponimi Italiani di origine Etrusca.'' (Sassari, Magnum Edizioni). Referenced in English on the Aritimi-Rezzo connection in Flavio Carnevale and Marcello Ranieri, "Lunistices at Sesto Fiorentino: An Investigation on Geometry and Alignments of the Tholos Tombs of the Etruscan Princes", ''Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry'' 16/4 (2016), 224. Online at http://maajournal.com/Issues/2016/Vol16-4/Full31.pdf</ref>

==Artume in popular culture==
Artume appeared as a recurring character in [[Marvel Comics]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://marvel.com/catalog/?id=10560 
|title=Incredible Hercules #124  
|author1=Van Lente, Fred |author2=Pak, Greg |date=December 31, 2008 
|publisher=Marvel Universe
|accessdate=26 April 2010|display-authors=etal}}</ref> However, this is not the goddess, but a daughter of [[Hippolyta (Marvel Comics)|Hippolyta]] in [[Marvel Comics]], similar to how [[Wonder Woman|her DC counterpart]] uses the goddess's Roman name.

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[[Category:Animal goddesses]]
[[Category:Etruscan goddesses]]
[[Category:Hunting goddesses]]
[[Category:Marvel Comics Amazons]]


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