Actaeon

Actaeon, in Greek mythology, a hunter who surprised the goddess Artemis while she was bathing with her nymphs. Artemis changed him into a stag (male deer) and he was torn to pieces by his own hounds. Actaeon was the son of Aristaeus (son of Apollo) and Autonoe (daughter of Cadmus, the founder of the city of Thebes), and was trained as a hunter by the centaur Chiron. The dramatist Euripides had Actaeon angering Artemis by boasting that he was the superior hunter.