"Artemis – goddess, noble daughter of Zeus, if only
you’d whip an arrow through my breast and tear my life out,
now, at once! Or let some whirlwind pluck me up
and sweep me away along those murky paths and
fling me down where the Ocean River running
round the world rolls back upon itself!"
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 20, lines 67-72. A lonely and depressed Penelope fears that Odysseus is not returning. Wishing for her own death as life without her husband is too painful, she prays to goddess of the hunt Artemis to kill her with an arrow.