Catalogue of Women transferring two fragments concerning Aristaeus which have traditionally been attributed to the "Catalogue", and his son Actaeon certainly appeared in the poem. The myth of Actaeon is known to have been narrated in the "Catalogue" by virtue of a paraphrase found in a fragmentary dictionary of metamorphoses. According to the dictionary, the "Catalogue" included a variant of the myth in which Actaeon was changed into a stag by Artemis and then killed by his own hounds because he attempted to take Semele as his wife, thus angering Zeus, who had designs upon the woman. Before this testimonium appeared, another papyrus
Ino (Greek mythology) son, King Pentheus, while struck with Dionysian madness, and Actaeon, son of Autonoe, the third sibling, was torn apart by his own hunting dogs. Also, the insanity of Ino and Athamas, who hunted his own son Learchos as a stag and slew him, can be explained as a result of their contact with Dionysus, whose presence can cause insanity. None can escape the powers of Dionysus, the god of wine. Euripides took up the tale in "The Bacchae", explaining their madness in Dionysiac terms, as a result of their having initially resisted belief in the god's divinity. When Athamas returned