Diana Nemorensis

Diana Nemorensis from the sanctuary, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)
Lake Nemi

Diana Nemorensis[1] ("Diana of Nemi"), also known as "Diana of the Wood", was an Italic form of the goddess who became Hellenised during the fourth century BC and conflated with Artemis.

Her sanctuary is on the northern shore of Lake Nemi beneath the rim of the crater and the modern city Nemi.

  1. ^ She is Diana nemoralis in the poets: Ovid, Fasti 6.59; Lucan, 6.75; Martial, 13.19.1 and elsewhere.