<P> A poem by Callimachus to the goddess "who amuses herself on mountains with archery" imagines some charming vignettes . Artemis, while sitting on the knee of her father, Zeus, asked him to grant her several wishes: </P> <Ol> <Li> to always remain a virgin </Li> <Li> to have many names to set her apart from her brother Phoebus (Apollo) </Li> <Li> to have a bow and arrow made by the Cyclops </Li> <Li> to be the Phaesporia or Light Bringer </Li> <Li> to have a knee - length tunic so that she could hunt </Li> <Li> to have sixty "daughters of Okeanos", all nine years of age, to be her choir </Li> <Li> to have twenty Amnisides Nymphs as handmaidens to watch her dogs and bow while she rested </Li> <Li> to rule all the mountains </Li> <Li> any city </Li> <Li> to have the ability to help women in the pains of childbirth . </Li> </Ol> <Li> to always remain a virgin </Li> <Li> to have many names to set her apart from her brother Phoebus (Apollo) </Li>

Artemis virgin goddess of the sun and moon