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  1. Actaeon
    HMS Actaeon was a British modified Black Swan Class sloop of 1430 tons displacement launched in 1945. HMS Actaeon was powered by two 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 20 knots and carried a complement of 192. She was armed with six 4 inch dual purpose guns and eight 2 pdr anti-aircraft gu...
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  2. Actaeon
    son of Aristaeus and Autonoe; he was walking in the forest one day when he mistakenly came upon Artemis bathing in a pond; Artemis became furious at this discovery and turned Actaeon into a stag, who later was hunted down and ripped apart by his own dogs;
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  3. Actaeon
    In Greek mythology, a hunter who surprised the goddess Artemis while she was bathing with her nymphs. She changed him into a stag and he was torn to pieces by his own hounds. He was ...
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  4. Actaeon
    in Greek mythology, son of the minor god Aristaeus and Autonoë (daughter of Cadmus, the founder of Thebes in Boeotia); he was a Boeotian hero and ...
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  5. Actaeon
    Actaeon (n; Άκταίων), in Greek mythology, son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, was a famous Theban hero. Like Achilles in a later generation, he was trained by the centaur Chiron. He fell to the fatal wrath of Artemis, but the surviving details of his transgression ...
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  6. Actaeon
    Actaeon (ăktē'un) , in Greek mythology, son of Aristaeus and Autonoë. Because he saw Artemis bathing naked, she changed him into a stag, and his own dogs killed him.
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  7. Actaeon
    In Greek mythology, Actaeon was a great hunter who was turned into a stag by Artemis for looking on her while she was bathing. He was subsequently torn to pieces by his own dogs.
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  8. Actaeon
    [disambiguation] Actaeon was a famous Theban hero in Greek mythology. Actaeon may also refer to: ...
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  9. Actaeon
    [ship] Actaeon was a ship that was wrecked without loss of life on 28 October 1822 in the D`Entrecasteaux Channel in Bass Strait, between Tasmania and mainland Australia. The Actaeon, a ship of 305 tons was built at Fort Gloster, India in 1815 and owned by J. Scott & Co. of Calcutta. It left...
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  10. actaeon
    1) Artemis turned him into a stag
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