Stag Hunt Mosaic accounts it is thought that Actaeon tried to rape Artemis. In this image we see the same concept of a stag being torn apart by a dog just as in the myth as well as by Alexander the Great on the right. It is speculated who is on the left. The theme here is the "hunter being hunted". It is a quite fitting mosaic for The House of The Abduction Of Helen, who was raped. The stag also represents the Persians that Alexander would later conquer. He had stated his motives for battling the Persians as to get vengeance for
Sinis (mythology) to be killed by Theseus as the hero was traveling from Troezen to Athens, in the very same way that he had previously killed his own victims. Theseus then slept with Sinis's daughter, Perigune, who later bore Theseus's son, Melanippus. Perigune later married Deioneus of Oechalia. According to Pausanias, Sinis's death tree was still alive and known during his times. Sinis (mythology) In Greek mythology, Sinis (Σίνις) was a bandit killed by Theseus on his way to Athens. An Isthmian outlaw, Sinis was the son of Polypemon and Sylea or of Canethus and Henioche. Sinis would force travelers to help