Artemis's love life offers some choice stories. The hunter Actaeon heard her bathing in a sylvan glade while he was out hunting, and snuck a peek at her naked Olympian gloriosity. As punishment, Artemis transformed him into a stag, who was then run down and torn to pieces by his own hounds.

Additionally, she once found her equal in hunting prowess in Orion, the hunter and giant-killer. The two of them ranged over the earth, hunting and hanging out. Apollo became jealous at their close relationship and arranged for a little accident for Orion. He sent Orion on a journey across the ocean (Orion could walk on water, I think, possibly because he was Poseidon's son? I misremember) and then went to find Artemis on an island where she was practicing her archery. Apollo kept daring her to make harder and harder shots with her bow, and finally pointed out a tiny dot, far out over the waves, near the horizon. "Betcha can't hit that dot, sis," he said. Artemis pegged the dot, which was, of course, Orion. She felt rather badly for this, and arranged for his constellation to be placed in the night sky.