Actæon
Family: Theban · Role: hunter · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 44
Actæon was the son of Aristæus. In Book 1, Autonoe, the daughter of Cadmus, grieved excessively at his death.
In Book 9, Stesichorus of Himera represented Artemis dressing Actæon in a deerskin so that his own dogs would devour him, preventing his marriage to Semele. The account also linked him to a rock where he slept after hunting and a spring where he saw Artemis bathing. In Book 10, Aristæus led Greeks to Sardinia some years after the Libyans, and they were said to have migrated in excessive grief at Actæon’s death.
Relationship record
Life events
- Actæon was represented as being devoured by his own dogs.(Book 9 · Chapter 2)
- “Stesichorus of Himera has represented the goddess as dressing Actæon in a deerskin, so that his dogs should devour him”
- Actæon’s marriage to Semele was prevented in Stesichorus’s account.(Book 9 · Chapter 2)
- With: Semele
- “that he should not be married to Semele.”
- Greeks migrated to Sardinia under Aristæus after Actæon’s death.(Book 10 · Chapter 17 · 📍 Sardinia)
Book 1 · Chapter 44
- with Autonoe (Autonoe grieved at Actæon's death.) “Autonoe the daughter of Cadmus, excessively grieving at the death of Actæon”
Book 9 · Chapter 2
- with Artemis (Actæon saw Artemis bathing.) “And a little further a rock called the bed of Actæon, because they say he used to sleep on that rock when tired with hunting, and in that spring they say he saw Artemis bathing.”
- with Stesichorus of Himera (Stesichorus represented the myth of Actæon.) “And Stesichorus of Himera has represented the goddess as dressing Actæon in a deerskin, so that his dogs should devour him, that he should not be married to Semele.”
- with Artemis (Artemis is the goddess represented as dressing Actæon in a deerskin.) “And Stesichorus of Himera has represented the goddess as dressing Actæon in a deerskin, so that his dogs should devour him, that he should not be married to Semele.”
- with Semele (The passage refers to Actæon not being married to Semele.) “And Stesichorus of Himera has represented the goddess as dressing Actæon in a deerskin, so that his dogs should devour him, that he should not be married to Semele.”
- courtship with Semele “And Stesichorus of Himera has represented the goddess as dressing Actæon in a deerskin, so that his dogs should devour him, that he should not be married to Semele.”
Book 10 · Chapter 17
- with Aristæus (Aristæus grieved at Actæon's death.) “who migrated they say to Sardinia in excessive grief at the death of Actæon”
Book 10 · Chapter 30
- parent: Aristæus “And next Mæra is Actæon, (the son of Aristæus)”
Book 10 · Chapter 31
- enemies with Odysseus “Polygnotus seems to have purposely collected together the enemies of Odysseus.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.