#Actaeon

[weepingwidar]

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

[the-evil-clergyman]

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

[escapismsworld]

📍Royal Palace of Caserta, Italy.

Fountain of Diana and Actaeon.

[letmeinimafairy]

Continuing the series with a commission for @bloodknife - Amadeo posing as Actaeon, a fragment of a painting. Jasper and tempera.

[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

[lionofchaeronea]

Actaeon, in the process of transforming into a deer, is set upon by his hounds. Apulian red-figure skyphos, artist unknown; ca. 400-350 BCE. Now in the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Germany. Photo credit: Carole Raddato.

[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

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Gaston Casimir Saint-Pierre (French, 1833-1916) Diana and Actaeon, n.d.

[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.)

[thelonelylemonsquare]

ARTEMIS WRATH : ACTAEON

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

[escapismsworld]

"Set wide the window. Let me drink the day."

- Edith Wharton, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses

[theriu]

Artists at the Ready 6 - Audition Page 7

<-Page 6 Artist Refs: Click Here Roy Ref: Click Here Actaeon Ref: Click Here

And that's a wrap for our audition! Everybody feels great about their teammates! Grace is embracing the weirdness with the comfort that it's probably all a dream anyway! I'm here to have a good time and get my niece out of here if it gets too scary! But everything is going to be fine this time! Right? Right! (Right?)

(BTW I feel I should clarify that the "I'll just die" "If you do I'll kill you" lines are just our family's brand of gallows humor and we mean it in jest and love!!! Because it might sound weird to people not familiar with that brand of joking. XD; )

Initial lineart by Pepsi; inks and digital editing by me.

[lesbianbanana]

oops i did it again

[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.

[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.

[cypressure]

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

Originally printed for my artists' book Actaeon (2020)