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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3146999, member: 85693&quot;]Whenever I&#039;m having a bad day, I gaze at this &quot;ancient&quot; Greek artwork hanging by my front door.&nbsp; No matter how bad the day, it probably isn&#039;t going to be as bad as the day Actaeon the Hunter glimpsed Artemis bathing - she turned his own dogs against him.&nbsp; And, according to this &quot;ancient&quot; Greek ceramic, she apparently shot him full of arrows to boot.&nbsp; I know this is authentic and Greek because it is signed on the back.&nbsp; Provenance:&nbsp; Indiana Salvation Army Store. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]805600[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]805601[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>P.S.&nbsp; Consulting Wikipedia for this post, I was delighted to find that ancient sources, which cannot tell us what an &quot;antoninianus&quot; was really called, gives the names for all of Actaeon&#039;s dogs:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The following list is as given in Hyginus&#039; <i>Fabulae</i>.&nbsp; The first part of the list is taken from Ovid&#039;s <i>Metamorphoses</i> (Book III, 206–235), and the second from an unknown source.</p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>N<i>ote:</i> In the first part of the list, Hyginus fails to correctly differentiate between masculine and feminine names. </i></p><p>According to Ovid</p><p><br /></p><p>Dogs: Melampus, Ichnobates, Pamphagos, Dorceus, Oribasos, Nebrophonos, Laelaps, Theron, Pterelas, Hylaeus, Ladon, Dromas, Tigris, Leucon, Asbolos, Lacon, Aello, Thoos, Harpalos, Melaneus, Labros, Arcas, Argiodus, Hylactor.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bitches: Agre, Nape, Poemenis, Harpyia, Canache, Sticte, Alce, Lycisce, Lachne, Melanchaetes, Therodamas, Oresitrophos.</p><p><br /></p><p>Authors other than Ovid</p><p><br /></p><p>Dogs: Acamas, Syrus, Leon, Stilbon, Agrius, Charops, Aethon, Corus, Boreas, Draco, Eudromus, Dromius, Zephyrus, Lampus, Haemon, Cyllopodes, Harpalicus, Machimus, Ichneus, Melampus, Ocydromus, Borax, Ocythous, Pachylus, Obrimus;</p><p><br /></p><p>Bitches: Argo, Arethusa, Urania, Theriope, Dinomache, Dioxippe, Echione, Gorgo, Cyllo, Harpyia, Lynceste, Leaena, Lacaena, Ocypete, Ocydrome, Oxyrhoe, Orias, *Sagnos, Theriphone, *Volatos, *Chediaetros&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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