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    Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer)

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | English (ed. Sir James George Frazer)
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    [4] Autonoe and Aristaeus had a son Actaeon, who was bred by Chiron to be a hunter and then afterwards was devoured on Cithaeron by his own dogs.1 He perished in that way, according to Acusilaus, because Zeus was angry at him for wooing Semele; but according to the more general opinion, it was because he saw Artemis bathing. And they say that the goddess at once transformed him into a deer, and drove mad the fifty dogs in his pack, which devoured him unwittingly. Actaeon being gone, the dogs sought their master howling lamentably, and in the search they came to the cave of Chiron, who fashioned an image of Actaeon, which soothed their grief.

    [ The names of Actaeon's dogs from the . . . . So
    Now surrounding his fair body, as it were that of a beast,
    The strong dogs rent it. Near Arcena first.
    [p. 325] . . . . after her a mighty brood,
    Lynceus and Balius goodly-footed, and Amarynthus. --
    And these he enumerated continuously by name.
    And then Actaeon perished at the instigation of Zeus.
    For the first that drank their master's black blood
    Were Spartus and Omargus and Bores, the swift on the track.
    These first ate of Actaeon and lapped his blood.
    And after them others rushed on him eagerly . . . .
    To be a remedy for grievous pains to men. ]
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    1 As to Actaeon and his dogs, see Diod. 4.3-5; Nonnus, Dionys. v.287ff.; Palaephatus, De incredib. 3; Nonnus, in Westermann's Mythographi Graeci, Appendix Narrationum, 6, p. 360; Hyginus, Fab. 181; Ov. Met. 3.138ff.; Fulgentius, Mytholog. iii.3; Scriptores rerum mythicarum Latini, ed. Bode, i. p. 103 (Second Vatican Mythographer 81). Hyginus and Ovid give lists of the dogs' names.

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    Cross references from L. D. Caskey, J. D. Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:
    110 [110. 00.346 BELL-KRATER from Vico Equense (NE. of Sorrento) PLATE LXII]

    Cross references from Perseus Vase Catalog:
    Harvard 1960.367 [Harvard 1960.367]

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    Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.
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