Actaeon

Artemis is not a gentle, dear friend.

Artemis is the goddess who sees Actaeon looking where he shouldn't and turns him into prey.

Hecate stands at the crossroads with her torches and her dogs, and she isn't there to help you pick a road.

A goddess who arrives at your gate in the middle of a plague, armed at night, carrying fire, you would want to know what the second sphere is for.

There is, in fact, a story of ancient Greeks kind of being held hostage by a ghost, if you will.

So much so that they actually had to consult the oracle at Delphi because the ghost of Actaeon was out and about and being pretty disruptive and was throwing rocks and damaging their countryside.

The ancients are truly just like us, having their own stories of haunted places, and disruptive ghosts.

So when you needed to help put a ghost down and really kind of put their spirits at ease for all pun intended, well, that was actually referred to as laying a ghost, which just means that you might have to do something so that their spirits find peace.

A study for Ophelia, Death of Ophelia by Millais, a detail of a constable, a country lane, and it's a kid who looks like he's died, actually, or been drowned.

Laburnum Tree by Spencer, Balm and Blossom by Bonnard, Shoreham Garden by Palmer, A Wall in Naples by Thomas Jones, Man Lying on a Wall by Lowry, View of Delft by Vermeer, The White House at Chelsea by Gurtin, Self-Portrait with Badges by Peter Blake, Crivelli's Dead Angels, Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels, Zurbaran's Agnes Day, Titian's Death of Actium, two mummy portraits from Coffins, a Lowry portrait of a boy, Francois Raffaelli's Reveille, which is in Birmingham City Art Gallery, a photograph of Turner's Death's Mask, Bacon's painting of Blake's Life Mask, and all of Rembrandt's self-portraits hung in a series from young to very old.

How wonderful.

They're very tightly packed.

This is something we've talked about before.

When Actaeon sees Artemis, we could interpret Artemis as nature in its most virgin, raw form.

He totally panics.

He runs away and is consumed by his own hunting dogs.

Whether Hunt's lightning can actually revive the dead because who is dead? The Harpy, which she'll come back in part three.

Um, But this is also where we find out that Lydia has had two sons whose name is Bran and Actaeon.

And the way, so literary heart.

So Actaeon is a, this is actually like Greek mythology.

He was a hunter that got turned into a stag in the way that Lydia is a deer shifter.

So Actaeon, clearly, I think that's a hint that he is a stag.

So also a deer shifter.

Do you know who else is a stag? Yeah.