![]() At far left is Artemis herself, simply dressed, her hair with a diadem and held in a patterned kerchief. The second person (name unknown) has taken to the hills. The first, more elaborately dressed, is named Diokles. His dogs begin to sniff the change of scent. The process of transformation into a stag has begun: antlers sprout from his forehead his ear is deerlike. He defends himself with a hunter's throwing stick (lagobolon). Nude and beardless, expressive of heroism, vulnerability, and youth, he wears only a pair of hunting boots, a mantle pinned at the shoulder, and a sun hat (petasos). Furious, she turned him into a stag, whereupon his hunting dogs devoured him.Īktaion occupies center stage. ![]() ![]() Aktaion boasted that he was a better hunter than the goddess of the hunt herself, Artemis.
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