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Terracotta oil lamp depicting Actaeon torn apart by dogs, 1st century AD, Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich (8957184041). Actaeon in Greek mythology, son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, was a famous Theban hero. Like Achilles in a later generation, he was trained by the centaur Chiron.

He fell to the fatal wrath of Artemis, but the surviving details of his transgression vary: "the only certainty is in what Aktaion suffered, his pathos, and what Artemis did: the hunter became the hunted; he was transformed into a stag, and his raging hounds, struck with a 'wolf's frenzy' (Lyssa), tore him apart as they would a stag." This is the iconic motif by which Actaeon is recognized, both in ancient art and in Renaissance and post-Renaissance depictions.
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Terracotta oil lamp depicting Actaeon torn apart by dogs, 1st century AD, Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich

Author Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany
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