person
Actaeon
A hunter turned into a stag by Diana and torn apart by his own hounds for seeing her bathe; an example of her wrath.
Reading notes
- The Heroides §20 Actaeon
The hunter Diana turned into a stag, torn apart by his own hounds; another example of her wrath.
- Ibis §15 spied on chaste Diana's lips
Actaeon, who saw Diana bathing and was torn apart by his own hounds.
- Metamorphoses §3.45 the grandson of Cadmus
Actaeon, son of Autonoë and grandson of Cadmus, the hunter turned to a stag for seeing Diana bathe.
- Metamorphoses §3.64 the shade of Actaeon
Actaeon, Autonoë's son, whose own dismemberment by his hounds Pentheus invokes in vain.
- Sorrows §2.1 Actaeon
The hunter who unwittingly saw Diana bathing and was torn apart by his own hounds; Ovid's parallel for being punished for an innocent act of seeing.