This article is about the mythological figure. For other meanings, see Callisto. and Callisto by François Boucher, Zeus takes the form of Artemis/Diana (Pushkin Museum, Moscow)]] In Greek mythology, Callisto ("most beautiful") was a nymph of Artemis. Myth As a follower of Artemis, Callisto, whom Hesiod saidIn his lost Astronomy, quoted in Catasterismi was the daughter of Lycaon, king of Arcadia, took a vow to remain a virgin, as did all the nymphs of Artemis. But to have her, Zeus disguised himself, some say as Apollo, some as Artemis herself, in order to lure her into his embrace and rape her. Callisto was then turned into a bear, as Hesiod had told it: According to OvidMetamorphoses ii. lines 405-531, it was Jove (the Roman Zeus) who took the form of Artemis so that he might evade his wife Juno?s detection, forcing himself u

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