Actaeon (disambiguation)
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Actaeon or Acteon (Ἀκτέων) was a hero in Greek mythology.
Actaeon or Acteon may also refer to:
Mythology
[edit]- Actaeon, son of Melissus, another mythical person, victim of Archias of Corinth
Arts and entertainment
[edit]- Acteón (film), 1965 Spanish film
- Actéon (opera), a 1684 French opera by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- Actaeon, a non-surviving play by Iophon (fl. 428–405 BC)
- Actaeon, a play by Phrynichus (tragic poet), an early Greek tragedian
- "Actaeon", a chapter of the Japanese anime Metamorphoses
Places
[edit]- Acteon Group, islands between the Tuamotu and Gambier archipelagoes, French Polynesia
- Actaeon Island and Actaeon Group, Tasmania, Australia
- Actaeon Sound, British Columbia, Canada
Transportation and military
[edit]- Actaeon (1815 ship), merchant ship wrecked in 1822, lending its name to Actaeon Island
- HMS Actaeon or HMS Acteon, several ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy
- Actaeon, a Priam-class locomotive of the Great Western Railway
- French submarine Actéon (Q149), a French Navy submarine commissioned in 1931 and sunk in 1942
Other uses
[edit]- Actaeon beetle (Megasoma actaeon), a rhinoceros beetle
- Acteon (gastropod), a genus of small sea snails
- Acteon Group (company), a British subsea services company