The story of Artemis and Actaeon is widely attested in Greece in both art and literature beginning with the archaic period. The kernel of the story, stable
throughout its history, is the transformation of Actaeon into a stag through the agency of Artemis and his being killed by his hounds. There were, however,
significant changes in the story over the course of antiquity. That the hunter was destroyed because he gazed on the goddess naked in the bath is first attested in Callimachus, Hymn V and later became standard in the Ovidian account. In this version, moreover, Actaeon comes upon the goddess by accident and is
destroyed for an innocent trespass. T