Artume

Template:Short description Artume (also called Aritimi, Artames, or Artumes) was an 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. Template:ISBN books.google.com/books?id=p0qwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA70 And Template:Cite book 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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> However, this is not the goddess, but a daughter of Hippolyta in Marvel Comics, similar to how her DC counterpart uses the goddess's Roman name.

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