Actaeon

[ak-tee-uhn]

noun

Classical Mythology.

1. a hunter who, for having seen Diana bathing, was changed by her into a stag and was torn to pieces by his own hounds.

Actaeon

/ ˈæktɪən, ækˈtiːən /

noun

1. Greek myth a hunter of Boeotia who, having accidentally seen Artemis bathing, was turned into a stag and torn apart by his own hounds

Example Sentences

The painting in question, entitled Diana and Actaeon, dates from the Renaissance era and portrays a mythical scene from the Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses.

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In the story, the hunter Actaeon surprises the goddess Diana and her nymphs bathing.

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I wouldn’t hang Artemisia Gentileschi’s “Judith Slaying Holofernes” in the living room, but I could stare at Janina Baranowska’s “Actaeon Devoured by His Hounds” every evening over dinner.

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In 2009, the National Gallery in London and National Galleries of Scotland jointly bought Titian’s “Diana and Actaeon.”

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After an aristocratic cousin of Queen Elizabeth II’s sold off a Titian, “The Death of Actaeon,” the Getty acquired it.

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