Hyginus Fabulae, treats Artemis in sections 9, 53, 98, 122, 150, 189, 200, and elsewhere. For passages in Hyg. Poetica astronomica, see the separate page: ArtemisANCIENT_HyginusAstronomicus
Fab. 9, "Niobe" Amphion and Zetus, sons of Jupiter and Antiope (Nycteus' daughter), by Apollo's command girt Thebes with a wall as far as Semele's tomb, and they exiled Laius the son of king Labdacus. They themselves began to hold the kingdom there. Amphion married Niobe, the daughter of Tantalus and Dione, and with her had seven sons and seven daughters. Niobe compared her offspring ahead of Leto's and haughtily disparaged Apollo and Diana because she wore masculine clothing and Apollo was lesser in dress and hairstyle; she also claimed that she was better than Leto in respect to the number of their children. For this reason, Apollo shot with arrows Niobe's sons while they were hunting in the woods; Diana shot her daughters in the king's home, all except Chloris. However the mother bereft of her children is said to have become petrified with her weeping and transformed into Mount Sipylus and to this day her tears are said to this day to drip out there. Amphion, though, when he wanted to demolish Apollo's temple, he was shot with arrows by Apollo.
Fab. 53, "Asterie" When Jupiter fell in love with Asterie, the daughter of the Titaness, she spurned him. Asteria was transformed into the ortyx bird (quail), which we commonly call the coturnix. He then threw the bird into the sea. The island we call Ortygia sprang from that. The island was prone to wander, and, after Leto had been carried away on at Jupiter's command, she held onto an olive tree on the island and gave birth to Apollo and Diana. This island later came to be known as Delos.
Fab. 98, "Iphigenia" Agamemnon and Menelaus, his brother, along with chosen chieftains of the Achaeans went to Troy to recover Helen, the wife of Menelaus whom Paris Alexander had abducted. At Aulis a storm confined the expedition due to Diana's wrath. Agamemnon had violated her stag while hunting but he also maligned Diana, too. When he had summoned augurs Calchas had responded that he could expiate that offense by no other means than to sacrifice Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia. As soon as Agamemnon heard this oracle he refused. Then Ulysses by design worked Agamemnon over to a more attractive opinion; Ulysses and Diomedes were sent to fetch Iphigenia from home; they approached Clytemnestra and Ulysses lied that she was to be married to Achilles. When they had brought her to Aulis and her father wanted to sacrifice her, Diana took pity on the girl and cast a darkness in the way, placing a deer in her place. Iphigenia she took away through the skies to the land of the Taurians and established as priestess over her temple there.
Fab. 122, "Aletes" A false messenger came to Electra, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, Orestes' sister, reporting that her brother and Pylades had been sacrificed on the alter of Diana among the Taurians. Aletes, the son of Aegisthus, received the news that no survivor of the house of Atreus remained. Aletes, therefore took the kingship of Mycenae. But, Electra set forth to Delphi to investigate the death of her brother. When she got there, on the same day Iphigenia arrived with Orestes. The same messenger who had reported about Orestes pronounced that Iphigenia was her brother's murderess. When Electra heard this, she removed a burning stump from the altar, lifted it up, and ignorantly wanted to burn out Iphigenia's eyes. And she would have done it, but Orestes intervened. After a recognition was brought about, they went to Mycenae and Orestes killed Aletes, Aegisthus' son; he was also wanting to kill Erigone, daughter of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, but Diana caught her up into Attica and made her a priestess there. Orestes, though, killed Neoptolemus and married Hermione, daughter of Helen and Menelaus, whom he had taken to himself. Pylades, on the other hand, married Electra the daughter of Agamenon and Clytaemnestra.
Fab. 150, "Titanomachy" After Juno saw that so much kingly power accrued to Epaphus, the son of the strumpet, she saw that Ephaus was killed in a hunting accident. She demanded that the Titans drive Jupiter from his kingdom and restore it to Saturn. When the Titans tried to ascend to the heavens, Jupiter teamed with Minerva, Apollo, and Diana to hurl the Titans headlong into Tartarus. Jupiter in response imposed upon the shoulders of Atlas, who was their leader, the vault of heaven. He is said still to hold the heavens up.
Fab. 189, "Procris" Procris was the daughter of Pandion. Cephalus, the son of Deion, was her husband. Since they were bound in mutual love, they gave one another an oath that neither would have sexual relations with any other. Cephalus, however, loved hunting and one morning had gone to the mountain. Aurora, the wife of Tithonus, fell passionately in love with him and sought to have sex with Cephalus. He declined, because he had given his oath to Procris. Aurora responded, "I don't want you to to betray your oath, unless your wife has first betrayed it." Thereupon she transformed him into the appearance of a stranger and gave him fake gifts to give to Procris. And, when Cephalus arrived in the false appearance and gave his gifts to Procris he had sex with her. Then Aurora removed the appearance of the stranger. When Procris saw all this and discerned that she had been deceived by Aurora, she fled from there to the island of Crete where Diana was hunting at the time. When Diana saw her, she said to Procris, "Virgins only hunt with me. And you are not a virgin. Get out of my band." In response Procris explained her hardship, that she had been deceived by Aurora. Diana was touched with mercy and gave the girl a spear that could not miss its target and a hunting dog named Laelapes which no wild animal could escape. Diana told Procris to go and fight with Cephalus. She came to Cephalus wearing her hair down as a young girl in Diana's bidding and called him forth, asking whether she would best him at hunting. When Cephalus saw how good the dog and spear were, he asked the stranger — not figuring that she was his own wife — to sell him the spear and the dog. She started to decline. When he promised her a part of his kingdom, she declined that, too. "But if you continue to possess it at all costs," she said, "Give me that thing boys usually give." He promised that he would give that thing, because he was burning with desire for the spear and for the dog. When they got to the bedroom, Procris lifted her skirt and showed that she was a woman, even his wife. Cephalus returned into her good favor by giving the gifts. Nevertheless, she feared Aurora and the next morning followed him to watch him hunt. She hid low among undergrowth. When Cepahlus saw that the undergrowth was rustling, he cast his unerring spear and killed his wife Procris. By her Cephalus had one son named Arcesius, from him was born Laertes the father of Odysseus.
Fab. 200, "Chione" Chione — or as some poets name her, Philonide — was the daughter of Daedalion, who is said to have had sex with Apollo and Mercury on the same night. She bore Philammon to Apollo and to Mercury Autolycus. Chione later spoke haughtily against Diana on the hunt one day. She was therefore killed by Diana's arrows. But her father Daedalion in mourning the loss was transformed by Apollo into the daedalion bird, i.e. the accipter hawk.
— translations by RTMacfarlane
IX — Niobe
Amphion et Zetus Iouis et Antiopes Nyctei filii iussu Apollinis Thebas muro circumcinxerunt usque ad †semedustum, Laiumque Labdaci regis filium in exsilium eiecerunt, ipsi ibi regnum obtinere coeperunt. (2) Amphion in coniugium Niobam Tantali et Diones filiam accepit, ex qua procreauit liberos septem totidemque filias; quem partum Niobe Latonae anteposuit, superbiusque locuta est in Apollinem et Dianam quod illa cincta uiri cultu esset, et Apollo uestem deorsum . . . . . . atque crinitus, et se numero filiorum Latonam superare. (3) id Apollo filios eius in silua uenantes sagittis interfecit in monte Sipylo, et Diana filias in regia sagittis interemit praeter Chloridem. at genetrix liberis orba flendo lapidea facta esse dicitur in monte Sipylo, eiusque hodie lacrimae manre dicuntur. (4) Amphion autem cum templum Apollinis expugnare uellet, ab Apolline sagittis est interfectus.
LIII — Aterie
Iouis cum Asterien Titanis filiam amaret, illa eum contempsit; a quo in auem ὄρτυγα commutata est, quam nos coturnicem dicimus, eamque in mare abiecit, et ex ea insula est enata quae Ortygia est appellata.(2) haec mobilis fuit; quo postea Latona ab Aquilone uento delata est iussu Iouis, tum cum eam Python persequeretur, ibique oleam tenens Latona peperit Apollinem et Dianam; quae insula postea Delos est appellata.
XCVIII — Iphigenia
Agamemnon cum Menelao fratre Achaeiae delectis ducibus Helenam uxorem Menelai quam Alexander Paris auexerat repetitum ad Troiam cum uenirent, in Aulide tempestas eos ira Dianae retinebat, quod Agamemnon in uenando ceruam eius uiolauit superbiusque in Dianam est locutus. (2) is cum haruspices conuocas set et Calchas se respondisset aliter expiare non posse nisi Iphigeniam filiam Agamemnonis immolasset, re audita Agamemnon recusare coepit.(3) tunc Vlixes eum consiliis ad rem pulchram transtulit; idem Vlixes cum Diomede ad Iphigeniam missus est adducendam, qui cum ad Clytaemnestram matrem eius uenisset, ementitur Vlixes eam Achilli in coniugium dari. (4) quam cum in Aulidem adduxisset et parens eam immolare uellet, Diana uirginem miserata est et caliginem eis obiecit ceruamque pro ea supposuit, Iphigeniamque per nubes in terram Tauricam detulit ibique templi sui sacerdotem fecit.
CXXII — Aletes
Ad Electram, Agamemnonis et Clytemnestrae filiam, sororem Orestis, nuntius falsus uenit fratrem cum Pylade in Tauricis Dianae esse immolatos. id Aletes Aegisthi filius cum rescisset, ex Atridarum genere neminem superesse, regnum Mycenis obtinere coepit.(2) at Electra de fratris nece Delphos sciscitatum est profecta; quo cum uenisset, eodem die Iphigenia cum Oreste uenit eo. idem nuntius qui de Oreste dixerat, dixit Iphigeniam fratris interfectricem esse. (3) Electra ubi audiuit id, truncum ardentem ex ara sustulit uoluitque inscia sorori Iphigeniae oculos eruere, nisi Orestes interuenisset. cognitione itaque facta, Mycenas uenerunt et Aleten Aegisthi filium Orestes interfecit et Erigonam ex Clytaemnestra et Aegistho natam uoluit interficere, sed Diana eam rapuit et in terram Atticam sacerdotem fecit.(4) Orestes autem Neoptolemo interfecto Hermione
CL — Titanomachia
Postquam Iuno uidit Epapho ex paelice nato [i.e. ex Iside] tantam regni potestatem esse, curat in uenatu ut Epaphus necetur, Titanosque hortatur Iouem ut regno pellant et Saturno restituant. (2) hi cum conarentur in caelum ascendere, eos Iouis cum Minerua et Apolline et Diana praecipites in Tartarum deiecit. Atlanti autem, qui dux eorum fuit, caeli fornicem super umeros imposuit, qui adhuc dicitur caelum sustinere.
CLXXXIX — Procris
Procris Pandionis filia. hanc Cephalus Deionis filius habuit in coniugio; qui cum mutuo amore tenerentur, alter alteri fidem dederunt ne quis cum alio concumberet. (2) Cephalus autem cum studio uenandi teneretur et matutino tempore in montem exisset, Aurora Tithoni coniunx eum adamauit, petitque ab eo concubitum, cui Cephalus negauit, quod Procri fidem dederat. (3) tunc Aurora ait, Nolo ut fallas fidem nisi illa prior fefellerit. itaque commutat eum in hospitis figuram, atque dat munera speciosa quae Procri deferret. quod cum Cephalus uenisset immutata specie, munera Procri dedit et cum ea concubuit. tunc ei Aurora speciem hospitis abstulit. (4) quae cum Cephalum uidisset, sensit se ab Aurora deceptam et inde profugit in Cretam insulam, ubi Diana uenabatur. quam cum Diana conspexisset, ait ei, Mecum uirgines uenantur, tu uirgo non es; recede de coetu. (5) cui Procris indicat casus suos et se ab Aurora deceptam. Diana misericordia tacta dat ei iaculum quod nemo euitare posset et canem Laelapem quem nulla fera effugere posset, et iubet eam ire et cum Cephalo contendere. (6) ea capillis demptis iuuenili habitu Dianae uoluntate ad Cephalum uenit eumque prouocauit, quem in uenatione superauit. Cephalus ut uidit tantam potentiam canis atque iaculi esse, petit ab hospite, non aestimans coniugem suam esse, ut sibi iaculum et canem uenderet. (7) illa negare coepit. regni quoque partem pollicetur; illa negat. Sed si utique, ait, perstas id possidere, da mihi id quod pueri solent dare. ille amore iaculi et canis incensus promisit se daturum. (8) qui cum in thalamos uenissent, Procris tunicam leuauit et ostendit se feminam esse et coniugem eius; cum qua Cephalus muneribus acceptis redit in gratiam. (9) nihilo minus illa timens Auroram matutino tempore secuta eum ut obseruaret, atque inter uirgulta delituit; quae uirgulta cum Cephalus moueri uidit, iaculum ineuitabile misit et Procrin coniugem suam interfecit. (10) ex qua Cephalus habuit filium Arc
CC — Chione
Cum Chione siue ut alii poetae dicunt Philonide Daedalionis filia Apollo et Mercurius una nocte concubuisse dicitur. ea peperit ex Apolline Philammonem, ex Mercurio Autolycum.(2) quae postea in uenatione in Dianam est locuta superbius; itaque ab ea sagittis est interfecta. at pater Daedalion unicam filiam flendo ab Apolline est conuersus in auem daedalionem, id est accipitrem.