Actaeon

Speech parts

1. Actaeon - Noun

2. Actaeon - Verb

3. Actaeon - Proper noun

Meaning

Actaeon

(Greek mythology) Grandson of Cadmus, transformed into a stag by Artemis in book III of Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Actaeon (plural Actaeons)

(archaic, slang) A cuckold.

Actaeon (third-person singular simple present Actaeons, present participle Actaeoning, simple past and past participle Actaeoned)

(obsolete, slang, transitive, rare) To cuckold.

Examples

Actaeon Multiple versions of the Actaeon myth survive, though many are fragmentary. Source: Internet

An element of the earlier myth made Actaeon the familiar hunting companion of Artemis, no stranger. Source: Internet

In the case of Actaeon, the dogs symbolize the sacrificers and Actaeon symbolizes the sacrifice. Source: Internet

However, Jupiter, shocked at the behaviour of the supposedly virgin goddess, has turned Actaeon into a stag. Source: Internet

Diodorus Siculus (4.81.4), in a variant of Actaeon's hubris that has been largely ignored, has it that Actaeon wanted to marry Artemis. Source: Internet

Lacy identifies the site of Actaeon's transgression as a spring sacred to Artemis at Plataea where Actaeon was a hero archegetes ("hero-founder") Plutarch, Aristeides11.3-4. Source: Internet

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