Artemiche

Artemiche is named in a Greek myth as a daughter of the wealthy Babylonian Clinis and his wife Harpe. When Clinis attempts to imitate a Hyperborean ritual by sacrificing donkeys to Apollo, the act draws Apollo's wrath. Artemiche and her brother Ortygius urged their father to obey Apollo; as Apollo punished the family by maddening the donkeys, Leto and Artemis intervened to save those who had counselled obedience. Apollo permitted Leto and Artemis to change Clinis, Ortygius and Artemiche into birds; Artemiche was transformed into a lark. The narrative presents her metamorphosis as both salvation and an origin explanation for the lark.

As recorded in the surviving sources, Artemiche appears as a human daughter of Clinis and Harpe with no surviving physical description. Following divine intervention she is identified as having been turned into a lark; the sources do not provide further details on the bird's color, size, or distinguishing marks beyond its species identification.

The accounts supplied do not attribute ongoing powers, specialized abilities, or notable behaviors to Artemiche after her transformation. Her role in the preserved tradition is that of a saved family member whose human life is continued through metamorphosis into a bird; no active agency, speech, or supernatural capacities are recorded in the cited material.