Artemis was a Greek Goddess who was the twin sister of Apollo. She was the goddess of the hunt and the traditional protector of young women. The first temple erected to Artemis was established at Ephesus. The Ephesus Artemis statue was supposedly placed by the Queen of the Amazons. It depicts Artemis as a woman of one-hundred breasts. The Amazons were a tribe of women from the region of what is now Eastern Turkey. These women were identified by having only one left breast. The right breast had been cauterized away to allow them to draw the bow and shoot the arrow as strongly as man. Legend has it that these women were so powerful and feared in battle that many male warriors fled before them. The association of this goddess with protection of young women and with the empowered one-breasted women of legend has led us to choose the Ephesus Artemis as the symbol for our survivor e-zine.

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