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Actaeon - Definition and Overview |
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In Greek mythology, Actaeon, or Aktaion was a son of Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, a hunter who endured the wrath of Diana.
Diana was bathing nude in the woods near Boeotian Orchomenos when the hunter Actaeon stumbled across her. He stopped and stared, amazed at her ravishing beauty. When she saw him, Diana changed him to a stag, for his unlucky profanation of her virginal mysteries, and set his own hounds to kill him. He was torn apart. However, the hounds were so upset with their master's death, Chiron made a statue so lifelike that the hounds thought it was Actaeon.
Ovid III, 193, Hyginus, Fabulae, 181.
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Example Usage of Actaeon |
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actaeon: @earth_lovin Good thing "Singin In the Rain" wasn't filmed in our area...the electricity would have been out |
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earth_lovin: Delayed Tweet: @Actaeon Whats that? {listens} why it sounds like, like its....storming. Yep, stormin' norman. Guess you owe me a 100 bucks. |
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actaeon: Poor, Poor Tiger Woods. All of the pieces are in place for an image wrecker..Scorned Ex-Wife, Golf Club, Cadillac, And Florida. |
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