Actaeon
mythological figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
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Mythical hunter said to have perished, torn apart by his own dogs.
By bad dogs they say one man, Actaeon, perished, and those gone mad;
but the one they strip bare for Actaeon, the other they even unite to Hephaestus and make the virgin all but a mother.
Bacchae
A kinsman of Pentheus torn apart by his own hunting hounds after boasting he surpassed Artemis in the hunt.
You see the wretched fate of Actaeon, who was torn apart in the meadows by the blood-thirsty hounds he had raised, having boasted that he was superior in the hunt to Artemis.
Where formerly dogs divided Actaeon among themselves.
For I saw Autonoe, who once bore Actaeon to Aristaeus, and Ino with her, still mad in the thicket, wretched creatures.