The deer may also offer a covert reference to the myth of Acteon ( or Actaeon ), who saw her bathing naked.

Aphrodite, who married Hephaistos, nevertheless had an affair with Ares to have Eros ( Love ), Phobos ( Fear ), Deimos ( Cowardice ), and Harmonia ( Harmony ), who would later marry Cadmus to sire Ino ( who with her son, Melicertes would become a sea deity ), Semele ( Mother of Dionysos ), Autonoë ( Mother of Actaeon ), Polydorus, and Agave ( Mother of Pentheus ).

File: WLA amart Actaeon. jpg | Actaeon (# 1 ), 1925, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D. C.

Among the chief works of his early maturity are Susanna and the Elders and Venus Anadyomene ( both 1839 ), Diana Surprised by Actaeon ( 1840 ), Andromeda Chained to the Rock by the Nereids ( 1840 ), and The Toilette of Esther ( 1841 ), all of which reveal a very personal ideal in depicting the female nude.

He was the leading member of the syndicate which purchased and partly resold the famous Orleans Collection of old master paintings in 1798 ( including Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto ), and most of his purchases are still held by the Egerton family.

While Cernunnos was never assimilated, scholars have sometimes compared him functionally to Greek and Roman divine figures such as Mercury, Actaeon, specialized forms of Jupiter, and Dis Pater, the latter of whom Julius Caesar said was considered the ancestor of the Gauls.

This has some similarity with the story of Artemis and Actaeon in Greek mythology.

Ino, daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, had an end just as tragic as her siblings: Semele died while pregnant with Zeus ' child, killed by her own pride and lack of trust in her lover ; Agave killed her own son, King Pentheus, while struck with Dionysian madness, and Actaeon, son of Autonoe, the third sibling, was torn apart by his own hunting dogs.

Actaeon, the son of Autonoë, was eaten by his own hounds as punishment for glimpsing Artemis naked.

Cadmus ' son Aristaeus is described, followed by his son Actaeon and his death.

She was the wife of Aristaeus and mother of Actaeon and possibly Macris.

In Boeotia, he was married to Autonoë and became the father of the ill-fated Actaeon, who inherited the family passion for hunting, to his ruin, and of Macris, who nursed the child Dionysus.

" In the version that was offered by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus, which has become the standard setting, Artemis was bathing in the woods when the hunter Actaeon stumbled across her, thus seeing her naked.

In an embroidered extension of the myth, the hounds were so upset with their master's death, that Chiron made a statue so lifelike that the hounds thought it was Actaeon.

According to the standard modern text on the work, Lamar Ronald Lacey's The Myth of Aktaion: Literary and Iconographic Studies, the most likely original version of the myth is that Actaeon was the hunting companion of the goddess who, seeing her naked in her sacred spring, attempts to force himself on her.

Diana and Actaeon ( Titian ) | Diana and Actaeon by Titian has a full provenance covering its passage through several owners and four countries since it was painted for Philip II of Spain in the 1550s.

* was a wooden Eclipse-class screw corvette launched in 1869, hulked in 1886, renamed HMS Actaeon in 1906 and sold in 1922.

Actaeon, after witnessing the nude figure of Artemis bathing in a pool, was transformed by Artemis into a stag that his own hounds tore to pieces.

Lowe was subsequently attacked by several organizations, mostly by Actaeon Industries, so they could snatch the Red Frame.

" This is the iconic motif by which Actaeon is recognized, both in ancient art and in Renaissance and post-Renaissance depictions.

Once seen, Artemis punished Actaeon: she forbade him speech — if he tried to speak, he would be changed into a stag — for the unlucky profanation of her virginity's mystery.

An element of the earlier myth made Actaeon the familiar hunting companion of Artemis, no stranger.

Multiple versions Actaeon myth survive, though many are fragmentary.

The details vary but at the core they involve a great hunter, Actaeon who Artemis turns into a stag for a transgression and who is then killed by hunting dogs.

However, in some surviving versions Actaeon is a stranger who happens upon her.

Most depictions of Diana in art featured the stories of Diana and Actaeon, or Callisto, or depicted her resting after hunting.

* Diana and Actaeon, Diana and Callisto, and Death of Actaeon by Titian.

Diana and Actaeon ( Titian ) | Diana and Actaeon, Titian, 1556 – 1559, a classic history painting, showing a dramatic moment in a mythological story, with elements of figure painting, landscape painting and still-life.

Stregheria, founded by Raven Grimassi and based on the works of Charles Godfrey Leland, the Horned God goes by several names, including Dianus, Faunus, Cern, and Actaeon.

The word " tiger " is retraceable to the Latin word tigris meaning a spotted tigerhound of Actaeon.

Euripides ' tale of Artemis and Actaeon, for example, may be seen as a caution against disrespect of prey, or impudent boasting.

* Pan Painter makes a " bell krater " ( an earthenware piece that is used to mix water and wine ) which has a red-figure decoration of Artemis slaying Actaeon.

For Philochorus asserts that that Actaeon who comes after Ogyges, and the fictitious names, never even existed.

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