In Greek mythology, Menippe and Metioche were daughters of Orion. They were extremely beautiful and talented, equals of Aphrodite and Artemis. Their homeland, Aonia, at the base of Mt. Helicon was struck by a plague and the sisters volunteered to be sacrificed to end it. As a reward, they were placed among the stars. // Greek mythology consists in part of a large collection of narratives that explain the origins of the world and detail the lives and adventures of a wide variety of gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines. ... An engraving of Orion from Johann Bayers Uranometria, courtesy of the US Naval Observatory Library Orion, one of the Titans of Greek mythology, provided the archetype of the primordial hunter in Greek culture. ... Detail of the The Birth of Venus (also known as Aphrodite) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1879. ... The Artemis of Versailles, a Roman copy of the marble sculpture of Leochares, now at the Louvre Artemis (Greek: nominative , genitive ), in Greek mythology was daughter of Zeus and of Leto and the twin sister of Apollo. ... Aonia was a district of ancient Boeotia, containing the mountains Helicon and Cithaeron, and thus sacred to the Muses, who are called by Alexander Pope the Aonian maids. ... The 11th-century monastery of Hosios Lukas on the west slope of the Helicon is one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites. ...