Picture the scene: you’ve literally just emerged from your mother’s womb, and you’re forced to play the role of a midwife to help deliver your twin brother. Your brother is then born clutching a bronze sword.

Both natural archers, you and your brother set out to hunt a terrifying creature known as Python that has pursued your mother. After such a traumatic experience, you might retreat to the woodlands to avoid more chaos.

That was certainly the case for Diana, goddess of the hunt and a master of the bow in Roman mythology. After her and her brother Apollo killed the beast, they went their separate ways, with Diana choosing the solitude of the forest. Here, she roamed the wilderness, hunted game and guarded the boundaries that separate wild from civilised.