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'''Actaeus''' or '''[[Actaeon]]''' was a Greek mythological character, the son of Aristaeus and Autonoe and grandson of [[Cadmus]], who was taught the art of hunting by the [[Centaur]] [[Chiron]].
The young man took to hunting in the forests of [[Thessaly]] with his dogs. One day when he was hunting by the Pelion Mountains, he came upon the goddess [[Artemis]] who was bathing with some [[nymphs]]. The young hunter was taken by the goddesses' beauty and could only stand and stare. When Artemis caught sight of him she was furious and turned him into a deer.
Actaeus and Artemis have been the subject of paintings by Titian, Thomas Gainsborough, Giuseppe Cesari and others.
[[Category:Greek mythological people]]