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'''Britomartis''' ({{IPAc-en||b|r|ɪ|t|oʊ|'|m|ɑːr|t|ɪ|s}};<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/newcenturyclassi00aver/page/226/mode/2up |page=227 |title=New Century Classical Handbook |first=Catherine B. |last=Avery |publisher=Appleton-Century-Crofts |location=New York |year=1962}}</ref>{{lang-grc-gre|Βριτόμαρτις}}) was a [[Greek goddess]] of mountains and hunting, who was primarily worshipped on the island of [[Crete]]. She was sometimes believed to be an [[oread]], or a mountain [[nymph]], but she was often conflated or syncretized with [[Artemis]] and [[Aphaea]], the "invisible" patroness of [[Aegina]].<ref>K. Pilafidis-Williams, ''The Sanctuary of Aphaia on Aigina in the Bronze Age'' (Munich: Hirmer) 1998, describes the distinctive local cult but is cautious in retrojecting the later cult of Aphaia to describe Britomartis at Aigina; the explicit identification of Britomartis and Aphaea is in [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.30.3 2.30.3], and in [[Diodorus Siculus]], v.76.3.</ref> She is also known as '''Dictynna''' or as a daughter of Dictynna (Δίκτυννα; derived by Hellenistic writers as from δίκτυα [''diktya''], "hunting nets").<ref>For example, "...{{nbsp}}all but caught, she leapt into the sea from the top of a cliff and fell into the nets of fishermen which saved her. Whence in after days the Kydonians call the Nymphe Diktyna (Lady of the Nets) and the hill whence the Nymphe leaped they call the hill of Nets (Diktaion)," [[Callimachus]], ''Ode 3 to Artemis'', 188ff.</ref>

 

 

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