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ID: 901002182
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002182
Record Type: Character/Person

Actaeon (Greek character)

Note: Son of the minor god Aristaeus and Autonoë (daughter of Cadmus, the founder of Thebes in Boeotia); he was a Boeotian hero and hunter. According to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Actaeon accidentally saw Artemis (goddess of wild animals, vegetation, and childbirth) while she was bathing on Mount Cithaeron; for this reason he was changed by her into a stag and was pursued and killed by his own 50 hounds. Actaeon was worshiped in Plataea and Orchomenus.

Names:
Actaeon (Greek character) (preferred,English-P,D)

Hierarchical Position:
Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
....<Greek iconography> (P)
........<Greek characters> (G)
............Actaeon (Greek character) (I)
Related Iconography:
is actor for .... Diana and Actaeon
..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Roman iconography, Roman narratives, Diana and Actaeon (Roman narrative)) [901002194]

Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... deity
.....(people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
role/characteristic is .... hero
.....(people by state or condition, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
role/characteristic is .... hunter (people)
.....(people in agriculture or natural resource occupations, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
culture/religion is .... Boeotian (general)
.....(Ancient Greek (culture or style), Aegean periods, Aegean, Mediterranean (Early Western World), Early Western World, styles, periods, and cultures by region, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
deity of .... Plataea
.....(Voíótía regional division, Region of Central Greece, Greece, Europe) (TGN)
deity of .... Orchomenus
.....(Voíótía regional division, Region of Central Greece, Greece, Europe) (TGN)

Sources:
Actaeon (Greek character)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
................Contributed as a candidate term H.Bertoldi, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, 29 July 2019
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
................ Source for image https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Titian_-_Diana_and_Actaeon_-_1556-1559.jpg/800px-Titian_-_Diana_and_Actaeon_-_1556-1559.jpg
................ Contributed as a candidate term H.Bertoldi, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, 29 July 2019

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