Artist: Dinos Painter
Size: 49 x 47 cm
Museum: Michael C. Carlos Museum (Atlanta, United States)
Technique: Ceramic
Aktaion boasted that he was a better hunter than the goddess of the hunt herself, Artemis. Furious, she turned him into a stag, whereupon his hunting dogs devoured him. Aktaion occupies center stage. 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). His hair is wreathed. He defends himself with a hunter
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