Actaeon

Also known as: Actæon · Family: Thebes · Role: hunter · First appears: Euripides, The Bacchæ — Scene 2

Life events

• Actaeon was torn to pieces by the hunting hounds he had reared.(Euripides, The Bacchæ — Scene 2 · 📍 meadows)
  • “You see the hapless fate of Actæon, whom his blood-thirsty hounds, whom he had reared up, tore to pieces in the meadows”

Euripides, The Bacchæ — Scene 2

• parent: Autonoe “and the mother of Actæon, I mean Autonoe;”
• rivals with Artemis “You see the hapless fate of Actæon, whom his blood-thirsty hounds, whom he had reared up, tore to pieces in the meadows, having boasted that he was superior in the chase to Diana.”
• with Artemis (Actaeon is described as boasting superiority to Artemis in the hunt.) “You see the hapless fate of Actæon, whom his blood-thirsty hounds, whom he had reared up, tore to pieces in the meadows, having boasted that he was superior in the chase to Diana.”

Euripides, The Bacchæ — Scene 7

• parent: Aristaeus “And I saw Autonoe, who formerly bore Actæon to Aristæus”

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