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Encyclopedia Britannica



ACTAEON

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 157 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: A10-ADA
ACTAEON , son of
Aristaeus
  and Autonoe, a famous Theban hero and
hunter
 , trained by the centaur Cheiron. According to the story told by
Ovid
  (Metam. iii. 131; see also Apollod iii. 4), having accidentally seen Artemis (
Diana
 ) on
Mount
 
Cithaeron
  while she was bathing, he was changed by her into a stag, and pursued and killed by his fifty hounds. His statue was often set up on rocks and mountains as a
protection
  against excessive heat. The myth itself probably represents the destruction of vegetation during the fifty dog-days.
Aeschylus
  and other tragic poets made use of the story, which was a favourite subject in ancient works of art. There is a well-known small
marble
  group in the British Museum illustrative of the story.


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