Actaeon
Actaeon (; grc, Ἀκταίων ''Aktaion''), 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 ...
or Acteon (Ἀκτέων) was a hero in Greek mythology.
Actaeon or Acteon may also refer to:
Mythology
* Actaeon, son of Melissus, another mythical person, victim of
Archias of Corinth {{Short description, Mythological founder of Syracuse, Sicily
Archias, son of Anaxidotos ( grc, Ἀρχίας Ἀναξιδότου Πελλαῖος) was a quasi-mythological Corinthian citizen and founder (oekist) of the colony of Syracuse in Sici ...
Arts and entertainment
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''Acteón'' (film), 1965 Spanish film
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''Actéon'' (opera), a 1684 French opera by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
* ''Actaeon'', a non-surviving play by
Iophon
Iophon ( grc-gre, Ἰοφῶν, fl. 428 BC – 405 BC) was a Greek tragic poet and son of Sophocles.
Iophon gained the second prize in tragic competition in 428 BC, Euripides being first, and Ion third. He must have been alive in 405 BC, the ...
(fl. 428–405 BC)
* ''Actaeon'', a play by
Phrynichus (tragic poet)
Phrynichus (; grc-gre, Φρύνιχος), son of Polyphradmon and pupil of Thespis, was one of the earliest of the Greece, Greek tragedy, tragedians. Some ancients regarded him as the real founder of tragedy. Phrynichus is said to have died in Sic ...
, an early Greek tragedian
* "Actaeon", a chapter of the Japanese anime ''
Metamorphoses
The ''Metamorphoses'' ( la, Metamorphōsēs, from grc, μεταμορφώσεις: "Transformations") is a Latin narrative poem from 8 CE by the Roman poet Ovid. It is considered his ''magnum opus''. The poem chronicles the history of the wo ...
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Places
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Acteon Group
The Acteon Group (Groupe Actéon) is a rather isolated and uninhabited subgroup in the far southeast of the Tuamotu atoll group in French Polynesia. It is located about east-southeast of Tahiti at latitude: 21° 17' 60 S, longitude: 136° 29' ...
, a group of islands in French Polynesia
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Actaeon Island
The Actaeon Island, part of the Actaeon Island Group, is a dolerite island and game reserve located at the southern entrance to the D'Entrecasteaux Channel between Bruny Island and the mainland, that lies close to the south-eastern coast of Tas ...
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Actaeon Sound
Actaeon Sound is a sound in the Queen Charlotte Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, branching off northeasterly from the north side of Drury Inlet near its head on the mainland of British Columbia to the north of the town of Por ...
, British Columbia, Canada
Transportation and military
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''Actaeon'' (1815 ship), merchant ship wrecked in 1822, lending its name to Actaeon Island
* or HMS ''Acteon'', several ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy
* Actaeon, a Priam-class
locomotive of the Great Western Railway
*, a French Navy submarine commissioned in 1931 and sunk in 1942
Other uses
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Actaeon beetle ''(Megasoma actaeon)'', a rhinoceros beetle
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''Acteon'' (gastropod), a genus of small sea snails
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Acteon Group (company), a British subsea services company
See also
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Acteonidae
Acteonidae, common name the "barrel bubble snails", is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks of the informal group Lower Heterobranchia.Bouchet, P. (2012). Acteonidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http:/ ...
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