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Actaeon torn

Myth & story

The Hellenic episode of the hunter turned stag and torn by his own dogs after seeing Artemis bathe. Not every looking-taboo, and not Diana as a being dump.

Hellenic religion

  • Actaeon torn appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias recounts Actaeon’s tearing by his hounds among Boeotian and Cithaeron-neighbor speech. A named Actaeon-torn telling in that periegesis, not every hunt dump and not Artemis sanctuary speech alone.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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