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Modern Mythology: Teenage African-American Artemis and Apollo

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“Apollo and Artemis were two twins born by the king of the gods Zeus and Leto, a daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe… [Leto] gave birth to Artemis, the Greek goddess of the hunt. Artemis then acted as a midwife to her mother to bring her brother Apollo to the world. For this reason, she was declared as the new goddess of the childbirth, taking the place of Hera’s daughter Eilithyia.” (source)