Callisto (mythology)

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Artemis （seated and wearing a radiate crown）, the beautiful nymph Callisto （left）, Eros and other nymphs.
Antique fresco from Pompeii.
In Greek mythology, Callisto or Kallisto （/kəˈlɪstoʊ/; Ancient Greek: Καλλιστώ [kallistɔ̌ː]） was a nymph, or the daughter of King Lycaon; the myth varies in such details.
She was one of the followers of Artemis （Diana for the Romans） who attracted Zeus.
According to some writers, Zeus transformed himself into the figure of Artemis to lure Callisto and seduce her.
She became pregnant and when this was eventually discovered, she was expelled from Artemis's group, after which a furious Hera, the wife of Zeus, transformed her into a bear.
Later, just as she was about to be killed by her son when he was hunting, she was set among the stars as Ursa Major （"the Great Bear"）.
She was the bear-mother of the Arcadians, through her son Arcas by Zeus.
The fourth Galilean moon of Jupiter and a main belt asteroid are named after Callisto.
Titian's Diana and Callisto （1559） portrays the moment when Callisto's pregnancy is discovered.
As a follower of Artemis, Callisto, who Hesiod said was the daughter of Lycaon, king of Arcadia, took a vow to remain a virgin, as did all the nymphs of Artemis.
According to Hesiod, she was seduced by Zeus, and of the consequences that followed: [Callisto] chose to occupy herself with wild-beasts in the mountains together with Artemis,
and, when she was seduced by Zeus, continued some time undetected by the goddess, but afterwards, when she was already with child, was seen by her bathing and so discovered.
Upon this, the goddess was enraged and changed her into a beast.
Thus s...