page_title: Actaeon
section_title: Names of dogs
hierarchical_section_title: Actaeon / Names of dogs
caption_attribution_description: English: Volterra, Italy. Volterra, Italy. Etruscan cinerary urn; Actaeon torn by the dogs of Diana, Volterra. Brooklyn Museum Archives, Goodyear Archival Collection (S03_06_01_021 image 2606).
context_page_description: 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', 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.
context_section_description: Notes:
  Names of dogs were verified to correspond to the list given in Ovid's text where the names were already transliterated.
  ? = Seven listed names of dogs in Hyginus' Fabulae, was probably misread or misinterpreted by later authors because it does not correspond to the exact numbers and names given by Ovid:
  Arcas signifies Arcadia, place of origin of three dogs namely Pamphagos, Dorceus and Oribasus
  Cyprius means Cyprus, where the dogs Lysisca and Harpalos originated
  Gnosius can be read as Knossus in Crete, which signify that Ichnobates was a Knossian breed of dog
  Echnobas, Elion, Aura and Therodanapis were probably place names or adjectives defining the characteristics of dogs
caption: Volterra, Italy. Etruscan cinerary urn; Actaeon torn by the dogs of Diana, Volterra. Brooklyn Museum Archives, Goodyear Archival Collection
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