Aspalis

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In Greek mythology, Aspalis was a local heroine from Melite in Phthia whose story was apparently meant to provide an etiology for the local surname and cult of Artemis. As in certain Artemis mythology, she hanged herself and her body disappeared.

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 200
Historical notes
Classical Greece

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Sources

wikipedia (1)

Source passages

“Aspalis has been speculated to have originally been a western Semitic hunting goddess identified with Artemis.”

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