ActaeonANCIENT_BritishMuseum

OGCMA s.v. "Actaeon"
British Museum site
Ovid Met. 3.138 ff.

Actaeon and Artemis, Lucanian red-figure nestoris, Dolon Painter, ca. 390-380 BC, London, British Museum, inv. no. 1865,0103.17

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Ancient Greek red-figure vase with a depiction of a man hunting deer with dogs and a frieze of dancing figures

The son of Aristaeus and Autonoe and the grandson of Cadmus, Actaeon stumbled upon Artemis at her woodland bath. Enraged at the offense to her chastity, Artemis splashed Actaeon with water, transforming him into the quarry he was himself seeking.

Actaeon is shown here in the form of a stag, as his own dogs attack him all around. Artemis watches more or less dispassionately.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University and other contexts.
This resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
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