Abstract
A long time ago, in a time when ancient gods roamed the earth, there lived a young Greek man named Actaeon from the city of Thebes. He was a handsome, talented and skilled hunter. One day, after a success- ful hunt in the forest, he came by accident upon a small river pond near a cave where to his great amazement he saw the goddess Artemis (Latin Diana) bathing with her company of nymphs in the cool waters. Artemis, a virgin goddess, patron of wild animals and small children, mistress of hunting and a major deity connected with initiation rites, noticed his forbidden gaze. First she blushed in embarrassment “as clouds bright-tinted by the slanting sun, or purple-dyed Aurora, so appeared Diana’s countenance when she was seen,” 1 then she executed a punishment: she turned Actaeon into a stag and set his pack of fifty dogs to hunt and devour him.2
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