Gods, Goddesses, and Ancient Legends
Moments after her own birth, the newborn Diana turned and helped her mother deliver her twin Apollo. The virgin who would never bear a child of her own was a midwife before she was an hour old.
The twelve labors were not a celebration of Hercules’ strength. They were its education — twelve tasks imposed as penance that turned the most dangerous man alive into one whose power could finally be trusted.
She spent seven books of the Aeneid trying to prevent Rome from being founded. She failed. The Romans still made her one of their three supreme gods.