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Pan Painter
Death of Aktaion
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![Death of Aktaion [Image]](1aktaion.jpg)
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The Greek hero Alexander the Great kept a Greyhound named Peritas. In The Odyssey, from 800 BC, Homer told the tale of the return of Odysseus. After an absence of twenty years, the only one who recognized him was his Greyhound Argus.
Greyhounds appear frequently in portrayals of Greek mythological figures. Hecate, goddess of wealth, and Pollux, protector of the hunt, were often shown accompanied by Greyhounds. The goddess Artemis takes revenge upon Actaion by turning him into a stag and setting her forty-eight Greyhounds upon him.
Pan Painter, Death of Aktaion (c. 470 B.C.)
From Mythology In Western Media by Ora Zehavi, and by Dr. Sonia Klinger; University of Haifa Library, 1995.
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