stag?

[Allen Adler]

Are there any Greek myths involving a stag?

Allan Adler
ad...@hera.wku.edu

[Moiner]

In article <2gg1cql...@hera.wku.edu>, Allen Adler <ad...@hera.wku.edu>
wrote:

> Are there any Greek myths involving a stag?

There's Actaeon, of course.

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[TFuru]

Moiner <moi...@ioREMOVEME.com> skrev i artikkelen
<moiner-ya02408000...@hiram.io.com>...

> In article <2gg1cql...@hera.wku.edu>, Allen Adler
<ad...@hera.wku.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Are there any Greek myths involving a stag?
>
> There's Actaeon, of course.

Does that deed of Heracles count, where he catches something deerlike, that
was tireless, as it had feet both topside and underside, and could loop
around, running on with rested feet and all that?

TF

[Sregei Mariev]

Stag in mythology

Stag is the favorite animal of Artemis. It plays special role in the cult of Artemis of Ephesos. The spots
on his skin were brought in connection with the function of Artemis as a goddess of the moon. There are
many coins from Ephesos which show Artemis and the stag.

Also, there is Actaionžs story (Ovid Met. 3, 197)

You can also check Pindar Pyth IV. 88.

Because of its speed, it was a personification of Adrasteia.

Sometimes Amor was depicted with a stag on riding on its back.

A stag also plays some role in the story of Iphigenia. There is wall painting in Pompeii which represents
a stag in the sky which was then sacrificed in place of Iphigenia.

A stag, I think also plays some role in the cycle of Heraclesž myths: a stag with golden horns???

And there is also a picture which shows Telephos with a female stag (is there such a word as žfemale
stag? Or is it called something different?)

There is also a book, rather old one and in German, which I think should have some interesting material
on the stags: O. Keller, Tiere des klassischen Altertums in kulturgeschichtlicher Beziehung. 1887
(Leipzig?)

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[Moiner]

In article <01bdf8ee$9e9f8040$73e9...@rand.dnd.no>, "TFuru"
<tr...@episteme.no> wrote:

> Moiner <moi...@ioREMOVEME.com> skrev i artikkelen
> <moiner-ya02408000...@hiram.io.com>...
> > In article <2gg1cql...@hera.wku.edu>, Allen Adler
> <ad...@hera.wku.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Are there any Greek myths involving a stag?
> >
> > There's Actaeon, of course.
>
> Does that deed of Heracles count, where he catches something deerlike, that
> was tireless, as it had feet both topside and underside, and could loop
> around, running on with rested feet and all that?

That's the Cerynthia Hind, IIRC, and them's female. But I'd count 'em in.
The deer slain by Odysseus on Circe's Island, maybe as well.

[Edwin P. Menes]

Add some versions of Agamemnon's sin at Aulis and the alternate story of
the sacrifice of Iphigenia.