#Actaeon

[gardinaarcana]

@cinic0ttimismo

Diane et Actéon by Jean-Léon Gérôme (19th Century)

[weepingwidar]

Dennis Scholl (German, 1980) - Aktaion (2023)

[escapismsworld]

📍Royal Palace of Caserta, Italy.

Fountain of Diana and Actaeon.

[lesbianbanana]

Greek Mythology Characters If They Wrote Books

- If You See A Girl Covered In Blood, She's Having The Time Of Her Life by Artemis

- Gardener's Guide To Common Flowers by Apollo

- A List Of All The Times I Fucked Shit Up by Athena

- Reasons Why You Cannot Be Better Than Me by Aphrodite.

- How To Be Illegal At 2 Hours Old by Hermes

- How To Be The Baddest Bitch Ever by Dionysus

- A Day In The Life Of An Ancient Greek Homicidal Housewife by Hera

- A Day In The Life Of An Ancient Greek Whore Husband by Zeus

- Why You Should Punch Your Brothers In The Face by Demeter

- Vague Dolphin Noises by Poseidon

- When Everyone Hates You But You're Literally Trying You're Best by Ares

- No Comment by Hephaestus

- God Forbid A Girl Have Hobbies by Persephone

- When You're Literally The Only Chill Dude Here by Hades

- Why Family Therapists Should Be A Thing by Hestia

- I Have The Stupidest Boyfriend Ever Prove Me Wrong by Patroclus

- How To Anger Your Great Great Grandfather (Step By Step) by Achilles

- A Series Of Incredibly Stupid Events That Are All My Fault by Odysseus

- Awkward Moment When You're Family Line Is Cursed by The House of Atreus

- I Introduce My Wife To My Mum (End Will Shock You) by Oedipus

- Why You Shouldn't Show Any Interest In Your Dad's Hobbies by Phaethon

- When You Accidentally Started A War But You're Literally Just A Girl by Helen of Sparta Troy

- When You're A Girlboss But Everyone Here Is Misogynistic by Atalanta

- How To Get A Wife Who Actually Likes You by Perseus

- Everyone Hates Me And Honestly Same by Heracles

- How To Raise Homosexuals by Chiron

- When You Try To Help A Pal Out But It Backfires by Asclepius

- Some Girl In The Woods Made Me Transgender by Sipriotes

- Ouch Fuck That Hurts by Actaeon

- I Was Supposed To Break The Cycle But My Husband Kept Eating Our Kids by Rhea

- Why You Should Teach Your Son To Stab People (i.e. Your Husband) by Gaea

- How To Cheat Death (*May Backfire*) by Sisyphus

[tractim]

question not related to art (yet):

lately i have been reading the dionysiaca by nonnus and just yesterday i have reached the part in which actaeon's myth is told. nonnus makes acteaeon climb a tree in order to spy on artemis, and i wanted to ask - how popular is this element in this myth? because it is very clear that here nonnus intends to draw as many parallels between actaeon and pentheus as possible (as he should) and if i remember correctly in ovid there are no mentions of actaeon climbing a tree. does someone knows any other classical versions in which this element is present?

thank you in advance

[gingermintpepper]

I know everyone knows the story of Actaeon and how he met a terrible fate by stumbling upon Artemis bathing in her forest but did you know that Actaeon was Apollo's grandson? That his father was Aristaeus, lord of the bees and the rustic arts and his mother was Autonoe, daughter of Cadmus and princess of Thebes?

Did you know he was trained by Chiron? That he was considered a hunter so skilled his talent was considered divine, that he was his parents' only child and that he was loved?

Did you know the grief that consumed the household when word of Actaeon's fate reached them? That Cadmus cut his hair, that Harmonia wept and was disconsolate and that his parents... well, Autonoe walked the length of the forest, keeping a sharp eye out for her son, but all she saw were the scattered bones of a fawn. Aristaeus too, had heard his son was torn apart and so fruitlessly, foolishly searched for the bones of a man. (There was none to be found)

Did you know that it was Actaeon's ghost, unhappy and unburied, trapped on the earth, who leaned over his sleeping father and told him of his fate? "You will not find me as you knew me, gather me as a stag." And Aristaeus immediately woke his wife and told her the truth, and together they grieved all the night long.

(Did you know that this is why Aristaeus abandons Boeotia? He could not stand the sight of it and so he went to Ceos. And there he slayed the dog-star. And there he became a healing wind. All in the name of his only son, that foolish, beloved Actaeon.)

[brimo5]

Dionysus: Orpheus, can you help me write more invitations for my costume party? Orpheus: What's the theme, sir? Dionysus: "Tearing Apart." Zagreus: Please tell me you're not inviting Pentheus and Actaeon. Dionysus: Just make sure you two aren't late. I need to change into my Egyptian costume.

[aliciavance4228]

Greek Mythology Figures as Songs

(AKA I'm bored af so I made something dumb.)

Sisyphus

Orpheus

Odysseus

Patroclus

Caeneus

Tiresias

Bellerophon

Icarus

Actaeon

Oedipus

[fleurbleedinghearts]

Zeus 🤝 Apollo 🤝 Aristaeus

Knocking up Ares’s granddaughters

[zurdurer]

Mechtober Day 7: Mythology

tearing, rending / feasting, hunting

The myth of Actaeon.. my favourite myth...

Its already a mechs song in Actaea and Lyssa so here they are, living with the wrath of a wronged goddess!

@mechtober-2024

[cypressure]

Actaeon Torn Apart By His Hounds (2020) etching, edition of 3, 9x9in.

Originally printed for my artists' book Actaeon (2020)

[less-ismore]

Antonio Tempesta, Actaeon killed by his own dogs (Actaeon a proprÿs canibus discerpitur), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses', 1606.

The hunter who became the hunted too.

[lesbianbanana]

oops i did it again

[gingermintpepper]

I've been thinking about Actaeon an insane amount while I've been ill so I woke up in the middle of the night in a mad frenzy to do some silly little doodles of him and his family ☆

[thelonelylemonsquare]

ARTEMIS WRATH : ACTAEON

"The dogs destroyed their master [Actaeon] utterly."

[hanssloane]

Detail from Eugene Delacroix’s painting Diana surprised by Acteon

1856-1863. Oil on canvas

See the painting at Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo

A young hunter named Actaeon, encounters chaste Artemis, known to the Romans as Diana, goddess of the hunt. The latter is enjoying a bath in a spring with help from her escort of nymphs when the mortal man unwittingly stumbles upon the scene.

The picture depicts the moment a nymph screams in surprise and attempts to cover Diana, who, in a fit of embarrassed fury, splashes water upon Actaeon.

In the story he is transformed into a deer with a dappled hide and long antlers, robbed of his ability to speak, and thereafter promptly flees in fear. It is not long, however, before his own hounds track him down and kill him, failing to recognize their master.