Diana

Also known as: Cynthia / Dictynna / Moon / Phœbe / Trivia / the Moon / the Ortygian Goddess · Family: Olympian gods · Role: goddess of the Moon · First appears: Fable 1

At Mænalus, as the Moon’s horns rose in their ninth course, Diana discovered Calisto’s pregnancy and expelled her from the hunting train. At Gargaphie, after Actæon saw her bathing, she transformed him into a stag. In Fable 53, she answered Arethusa’s appeal for help by turning her into a stream, then cleaved the ground and carried her through dark caverns to Ortygia.

In Fable 56, Diana and Apollo avenged their mother, Latona, by killing Niobe’s daughters, leaving Niobe childless. In Fable 68, Diana’s dog and javelin were given by Procris to Cephalus. At Calydon in Fable 73, Diana sent a boar to ravage Œneus’s lands after he neglected her altar; at length, she bore his mourning daughters Eurymede and Melanippe aloft on wings.