Miscellaneous Myths: Actaeon

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Referring to them as "Artemis's bonkhonagahoogs" is exactly the kind of thing that gets you turned into a deer and devoured by hounds.

Fun fact, in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Diana's room (aka the deer named after Artemis) is based on a bath house SPECIFICALLY as a reference to this myth.

Actaeon: Accidentally seens Artemis naked. Artemis: I'll punish you for this. Artists for the next 3000 years: I can use this as an excuse to show Artemis naked!

okay the fact that Chrion made a statue specifically to comfort Actaeons hounds is really sad and honestly kind of sweet. those poor puppies :(

the hounds being confused about where he is then getting a statue made of him made me kinda sad 😭

Imagine having: "Accidentally saw Artemis's bonkhonagahoogs" written on your tombstone

Okay, here's a theory: some dude's dogs ended up eating him, and the story was just so very viral that everyone and their dog was speaking about it. Perhaps shared as a cautionary tale about not having your dogs too rabid/hungry/mistreated, but, by the time ye Olde telephone game had taken place, it was concluded that this sounded distinctively Devine retribution, and the story was retold from there, hence why the reason is inconsistent: the "original" had nothing to do with gods and goddesses, that was added in retroactively in every situation. The association with Artemis in particular is just that she was a hunter, he was a hunter, he was killed by hunting dogs, so she must have had SOMETHING to do with it.

Do you think Artemis ever put up warning signs? Y'know, the "TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT" type of sign, because it feels like this happened a lot in Greek Mythology.

I love how the only thing that was consistent about this guy is the way he died. Like all the authers agreed that he just had to be killed by hounds.

Omg his story is just that trope in anime where the guy accidentally walks into the girl’s sauna and is beaten half to death before he can explain 😭

Absolutely ended up chuckling like a madman at: "Accidently sees Artemis's hoohas" "Accidently sees Artemis's bonkonagahoogs" "Accidently sees Artemis's and her posse's dobonhonkeros" I am WEAK P L EA S E--

Actaeon: "I'm a better hunter than Artemis!" Artemis: "Well, I could just shoot him from here and call it a day, but I'm really liking the irony of making his hunting dogs eat him." I'm really liking this version of it. Short, to the point, without a lot of the general cruelty and dragging it out that most Olympians like to do when Mortals start doing that hubris thing.

This story is like a game with fixed ending. No matter what path Actaeon takes it will end with him in hounds' stomach

I just feel sorry for this dude. The way you told the story, makes him sound like a really unlucky guy, who just happened to be at the wrong place, at the wrong time, or flirt with the wrong woman, at the wrong time. And then he got killed.

Red: Say it with me now, he’s- Me: DEVOURED BY HIS OWN HOUNDS Red: - A hunter

Guess I'll be the one who gives Actaeon a happy ending: After apologizing for the accident Artemis was pretty chill about it. Actaeon lived a pretty normal life afterwards. He died at the age of 72. Cause of death was a stroke... and then he got devoured by his own hounds. It was never meant to be...

One day, Red will talk about Ixion. She has basically done all the other guys who got punished. Tantalus, Sisyphus, Piorithus.

5:10 "Featuring a woman, probably Artemis, looking pretty cranky but usually - though not always - fully clothed" To be fair, if you are depicting the story of a god killing someone for seeing them naked, you mind be disinclined to depict that god naked.

I live for Artemis putting a protective hand over one of her nymph's shoulder