Actaeon of Corinth

Speranza

The author of "Erotikai Diegesis" attributed by tradition to Plutarco mentions Actaeon.

Melissus had a son named Actaeon, the handsomest and most modest youth of his age, who had many lovers, chief of whom was Archias.

Now, when Archias could not gain Actaeon by persuasion, he determined to carry him off by force.

So Archias got together a crowd of friends and servants, and he went as in a drunken frolic to the house of Melissus, and tried to take Actaeon away.

But Melissus and his friends resisted. The neighbours also ran out and pulled against the assailants.

As a result, Actaeon was pulled to pieces and killed.

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Archias sailed to Sicily and founded Syracusse.

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His two daughters were murdered by his former beloved, Telephus.

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The scholiast to Apollonius of Rhodes's Argonautica also mentions Actaeon.

One night the Bacchiadae came to Actaeon's house intending to seize the boy.

His father protested and Actaeon was torn to pieces.

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This is diasparagmos.

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