Editing Actaeon (section)

==The "bed of Actaeon"==
In the second century AD, the traveller [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] was shown a spring on the road in [[Attica]] leading to [[Plataea]] from [[Eleutherae]], just beyond [[Megara]] "and a little farther on a rock. It is called the bed of Actaeon, for it is said that he slept thereon when weary with hunting and that into this spring he looked while Artemis was bathing in it."

"As to Actæon there is a tradition at [[Orchomenus (Boeotia)|Orchomenus]], that a spectre which sat on a stone injured their land. And when they consulted the oracle at [[Delphi]], the god bade them bury in the ground whatever remains they could find of Actæon: he also bade them to make a brazen copy of the spectre and fasten it with iron to the stone. This I have myself seen, and they annually offer funeral rites to Actæon."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pausanias' Description of Greece, Vol. II., by Pausanias—A Project Gutenberg eBook |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/68680/68680-h/68680-h.htm#CHAPTER_9_2 |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=www.gutenberg.org}}</ref>