Diana (Latin: D ĭā Na, English: Diana), the goddess of the moon and oak in Roman mythology, is one of the twelve main gods in Rome. She corresponds to Artemis, Hecarte and other goddesses in Greek mythology, as well as the goddess of Celesta in Phoenician mythology.
Her etymology may have something to do with light. There are many moon gods in Rome. According to Varo, Luna, the moon goddess, is also associated with other 12 goddesses (including Diana). Therefore, Diana, like Juno and Minerva, was later identified as the moon goddess by Rome.
The Romans liked to use Roman gods to annex foreign gods with similar divinities. About the fifth and sixth centuries BC, Diana worship came into contact with the ancient Greeks. Until the Roman era, Diana annexed the Greek goddess Artemis, and was therefore regarded as the goddess of hunting, plants and beasts. At the same time, Diana also swallowed up the Greek goddess Hecarte, representing Diana's three realms of heaven, earth and hell.
After absorbing Greek gods, Diana mythology added more adapted literature. In the description of late Roman art, Diana loved outdoor life. She held bows and arrows in the woods and mountains, accompanied by dogs, and played hunting with the female fairy attendants. Sometimes she traveled in a silver cart drawn by two holy deer. Diana, like the handmade goddess and the memory goddess Minerva, remains chaste all her life. She is a strict goddess of virtue. She opposes marriage between men and women. Therefore, to be a Diana in English can be used to mean "never marry".

In Roman mythology, Diana was originally a mountain goddess who was worshipped by Latin people and lived on the ground. After the later annexation of Artemis, Diana's mythology added some adaptations of late Greek literature, becoming the daughter of Jupiter, the king of gods, and the goddess Latona, and the twin sister of Apollo. The Orutas River is a river outside the city of Sparta; Cynthius is the mountain name of the Aegean island Delos, where Apollo and Diana were born.

In Roman mythology, Diana was a sacred goddess of the moon, hunting and childbirth, animals and plants, and had the power to control animals' speech. She was a goddess originating from the Neimi region of Italy, and later annexed the Greek goddess Artemis, Hecarte and other goddesses, as well as the Carthaginian goddess of heaven, Celesta.
Hecarte's alias Triodies was translated into Latin Trivia by Rome, and in Rome, Trivia is an alias of Diana, that is, Hecarte's counterpart in Rome is Diana. Because she absorbed the reason of Hecarte, Diana was regarded as the goddess of witchcraft in the middle and late ancient Rome and the Middle Ages.
For the naming of her name, Diana was called the goddess of virginity, childbirth and women. She and her three virgins, Minerva and Vesta, vowed never to marry.
Diana is the goddess of the Latin Union. Rome has gradually become the hegemon in this alliance. The Roman King Selvius Tulius built the Temple of Diana in Arvintingong, which became the center of the worship of Diana by civilians, new Latin immigrants and slaves at that time. Therefore, Diana also became the goddess of Latin bottom society.
Oak Garden is a particularly sacred place. According to the myth, Diana was originally the Latin goddess of mountains and forests, and the oak tree was her sacred tree (see "Golden Bough"). It is said that the priest of Diana lived in the oak forest. Whenever someone cut down the branches of the oak tree, the priest would feel very frightened. According to the regulations, the way Diana's priest succeeded was to kill the previous priest, and the oak branch was broken, indicating that the person who broke the branch could kill the former priest.
At first, Diana was only a mountain goddess in Rome, but later she annexed Luna, another Roman moon god, so she became the main moon goddess in Rome and gave birth in the countryside. Katurus wrote a poem, which recorded that Diana had many aliases: Latonia, Lucina, Iuno, Trivia, Luna.

The moon goddess Diana herself may be related to light. At the same time, the Romans associated Luna with other goddesses. So Rome later confirmed Diana as the goddess of the moon. At night, Diana flew over the night sky in a solemn manner and sat in the sky ox cart driven by milky white cows. The "Queen of the vast sky" radiated silver light to the sleeping land.
The god of mountains and forests - Diana herself is a goddess of mountains and forests in Neimi region of Italy. She is not only the protection god of forests and animals, but also the goddess of plants and livestock in Roman countryside, and the goddess of countryside.
Hunting Goddess - because of Diana's nature of mountains and forests and the influence of Artemis in the later period, Diana was later regarded as a hunting god, holding bows and arrows, wearing a sleeveless waist dress made of animal skin, and walking through the jungle hunting surrounded by fairy attendants. The mountains of Taygetus and Eremasos in Peloponnese are her frequent haunts.
The Goddess of Abundance and Pregnancy - In the famous Artemis Temple, one of the seven wonders of ancient times, she was worshipped in the image of Artemis, the goddess of milk. In addition, she can enable women to have more children, alleviate their pain during childbirth, and protect newborn babies.
The God of Health - Like her brother Apollo, Diana brings health and cures diseases, and her role in bringing death and plague counteracts each other.
Hecat Diana is sometimes depicted holding a torch or torch. Because the Romans used her to absorb Hecate, they also had the image of holding a torch.
The god of protecting virgins - Diana loves unmarried virgins and is very strict with the chastity of her fairy attendants. Diana is one of the three goddesses.
Diana, the goddess of death, has the ability to bring plague, disease and sudden death to people.
The goddess of purification - Diana, like many gods, is the goddess of purification ceremony, the impure and tainted murderer.
The ancient Romans, the god of light and life, used her to swallow Artemis, so she possessed all the characteristics given to her in the late Greek literature.

Diana's role is complex.
Diana, who is both the moon god and the goddess of hunting, has a childish face. She often wears a waist skirt and hunting boots, holds a bow and arrow, and is accompanied by deer or hunting dogs.
Like Venus, she is often depicted as a beautiful, young girl, sometimes wearing a crescent crown.
It is different from the Greek goddess Artemis. Artemis usually puts his hair in a bun at the back of his head, which is convenient for hunting. Sometimes he wears the golden crown commonly used by Greek goddesses, and does not have a moon sign on his head. In Roman mythology, Diana would have a moon overhead.

Boucher likes to embellish poetic natural scenery with mythical figure activities, which makes his landscape painting have the realm of heaven and earth. In this painting, the close-up view of towering trees stands high above the sky, and the sky and water are the same color through the gap. The silver light is shining, and it is quiet and deep. The fairy in the mountains and rivers accompanied the hunting god Diana to bathe and play by the river. This mysterious environment is full of harmony between man and nature and joy of life.
Boucher described the romantic dreamlike mood with gentle colors. Therefore, critics believe that Koro's style is a realistic painting mixed with classical elegance and romantic fantasy, as well as various factors. Diana has always been one of the most popular artistic themes, such as painters Titian, Peter Paul Rubens, Francois Boucher, and Nicolas Poussin used her myth as an important theme. Most of Diana's artistic description functions with the story of Diana Akato, or Callisto, or the depiction of her rest after hunting.