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Actaeon , in Greek mythology, son of Aristaeus and Autonoë. Because he saw Artemis bathing naked, she changed him into a stag, and his own dogs killed him.

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Actaeon in Greek mythology, a hunter who, because he accidentally saw Artemis bathing, was changed by her into a stag and killed by his own hounds.

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	Road kill.(Poem) Magazine article from: Commonweal; 9/10/2004; ; 266 words ; Actaeon ripped to gobbets by his hounds, felled in the mazy paths of venery: it was not like that. Where the dark abounds, a five-point... Read more
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	Swithering.(Brief article)(Book review) Magazine article from: The Antioch Review; 9/22/2006; ; 305 words ; ...help him because he is dead. Robertson blends this heightened contemporary world with the world of classical mythology. In Actaeon: The Early Years the ruinous adult vision is tied to a child glimpsing his violent, unpredictable mother in a bathtub--and... Read more
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