Actaeon (disambiguation)

Actaeon or Acteon (Ἀκτέων) was a hero in Greek mythology.

Actaeon or Acteon may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Acteón (film), a 1965 Spanish film
• Actéon (opera), a 1684 French opera by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
• Actaeon, a lost play by Iophon (fl. 428–405 BC)
• Actaeon, a play by Phrynichus (tragic poet), an early Greek tragedian
• "Actaeon", a chapter of the Japanese anime Metamorphoses

Places

• Acteon Group, islands between the Tuamotu and Gambier archipelagoes, French Polynesia
• Actaeon Island and Actaeon Group, Tasmania, Australia
• Actaeon Sound, British Columbia, Canada

Military

• or HMS Acteon, several ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy
• , a French Navy submarine commissioned in 1931 and sunk in 1942

Transportation

• Actaeon (1815 ship), a merchant ship wrecked in 1822, lending its name to Actaeon Island
• Actaeon (1815 Topsham ship), a merchant ship which made some of its voyages for the British East India Company
• Actaeon, a Priam-class locomotive of the Great Western Railway

Other uses

• Actaeon beetle (Megasoma actaeon), a rhinoceros beetle
• Acteon (gastropod), a genus of small sea snails
• Acteon Group (company), a British subsea services company
• Actaeon, son of Melissus, another mythical person, victim of Archias of Corinth

See also

• Acteonidae