Artemis is not the name of an Amazon, it's the name of the Greek goddess of the hunt, the counterpart to the Roman Diana. (Which is why the "Amazon" who replaced Diana as Wonder Woman was named Artemis by the comic-book writers who created her.) It's the ideal name for a female archer character, because the goddess Artemis (or Diana) was traditionally depicted as hunting with a bow.
Artemis is the name of an amazon (In DC Comics). It's also the name of a Greek Goddess... who was worshiped in all her forms by the Amazons.
I know perfectly well who Artemis of the Bana-Mighdall is. I explicitly referred to her in the paragraph you just quoted, as well as in an earlier post in this thread. My point is that that character was created only 16 years ago, while the goddess Artemis has been part of Western mythology for thousands of years. Therefore, there is far, far more precedent for the Greek-goddess usage of the name. Obviously the developers of this show called this character Artemis in reference to the ancient mythology, which is an entirely valid and proper use of the name. The use of that name within recent DC Comics history to refer to an Amazon is barely a blip on the radar in comparison to those millennia of cultural precedent, and thus it's invalid to argue that that should be the "preferred" usage of the name Artemis.
That's not what I said. I said "Artemis is not the name of an Amazon." I meant that,
in general, in its original and historical usage, the name Artemis is a reference to a Greek deity. It is not, in and of itself, an "Amazon name." Of course, in reality there are no "Amazon names," since the Amazons never existed outside of Greek mythology, and even there they have Greek names despite being portrayed as a foreign tribe. Only
a couple of dozen Amazon names are recorded in Greek myth, and "Artemis" is not one of them. DC Comics' use of Artemis as an "Amazon name" is just as artificial as their use of Diana as such a name.
Of course, that's if we're even still talking about "Arrowette" and not a totally new character named Artemis.
As has already been stated, she is the same character under a different (and far less idiotic) name.
If "Artemis" is supposed to be a nod to Wonder Woman..., then they should of just used Cassie.
Once again: The name Artemis was attached to an ancient goddess of the hunt, symbolized by her use of a bow and arrow, for THOUSANDS OF YEARS before anyone thought to attach it to Wonder Woman. This character is a female archer, therefore it should be self-evident that she's named in honor of the Greek goddess.
