Actaeon

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.4

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Actæon) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Actaeon)

Life events

Actaeon was devoured on Cithaeron by his own dogs.(Apollodorus, Library 3.4 · 📍 Cithaeron)
- “Autonoe and Aristaeus had a son Actaeon, who was bred by Chiron to be a hunter and then afterwards was devoured on Cithaeron by his own dogs.”

parent: Autonoe “Autonoe and Aristaeus had a son Actaeon,”
parent: Aristaeus “Autonoe and Aristaeus had a son Actaeon,”
mentor: Chiron “who was bred by Chiron to be a hunter”
enemies with Zeus “He perished in that way, according to Acusilaus, because Zeus was angry at him for wooing Semele;”
enemies with Artemis “it was because he saw Artemis bathing. And they say that the goddess at once transformed him into a deer,”
with Zeus (According to Acusilaus, Zeus was angry with Actaeon.) “Actaeon ... perished in that way, according to Acusilaus, because Zeus was angry at him for wooing Semele”
with Artemis (Artemis transformed Actaeon into a deer.) “it was because he saw Artemis bathing. And they say that the goddess at once transformed him into a deer”
with Chiron (Chiron fashioned an image of Actaeon.) “they came to the cave of Chiron, who fashioned an image of Actaeon, which soothed their grief”

Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.