Artemis Tauropolos

O: bare head of Augustus ΚΑΙΣΑΡ / ΘΕΟΥ ΥΙΟΣ	R: Artemis Tauropolos riding bull AMΦΙΠOΛEΙΤΩΝ
bronze coin struck by Augustus in Amphipolis 31 - 27 BC; ref.: RPC 1626

Artemis Tauropolos, in ancient Greece, was an epithet for the goddess Artemis, variously interpreted as worshipped at Tauris, or pulled by a yoke of bulls, or hunting bull goddess. A statue of Artemis "Tauropolos" in her temple at Brauron in Attica was supposed to have been brought from the Taurians by Iphigenia. Tauropolia was also a festival of Artemis in Athens.

There was a Tauropolion, a temple in a temenos sacred to Artemis Tauropolos, in the north Aegean island of Doliche (now Ikaria).

See also

• Iphigenia in Tauris
• Taurus (Mythology)
• Bull (mythology)

References

• LSJ
• A handbook of classical drama By Philip Whaley Harsh Page 220 ISBN 978-0-8047-0380-2