Cerynean hind
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
dappled deer with horns of gold · the doe with the golden horns
spoken of as
1 expressionthe Cerynean Hind1 mention
Olympian (Greek)
there he had stood and marvelled at the trees, and sweet desire for them possessed him, to plant them around the boundary-line of the horse-racing ground with its twelve courses.
in the texts
Heracles
The golden-horned deer sacred to Artemis, captured by Heracles as one of his labors.
And he slew that dappled deer with horns of gold, that preyed upon the country-folk, glorifying Artemis, huntress queen of Oenoe.
Olympian
The golden-horned doe dedicated to Artemis by Taÿgete, pursued by Heracles into the Hyperborean lands.
there he had stood and marvelled at the trees, and sweet desire for them possessed him, to plant them around the boundary-line of the horse-racing ground with its twelve courses.
through the commands of Eurystheus, compulsion from his father urged him on the quest of the doe with the golden horns, which once Taÿgete had inscribed as a sacred dedication to Artemis who sets things right.