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Actaeon

In Greek mythology, a hunter who surprised the goddess Artemis while she was bathing with her nymphs. She changed him into a stag and he was torn to pieces by his own hounds.

He was the son of Aristaeus and Autonoe (daughter of Cadmus), and was trained as a hunter by the centaur Chiron. The dramatist Euripides makes Actaeon anger the goddess by boasting that he excelled her in hunting.



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