Ted Hughes: Actaeon

Relationship to Classical text Allusion to myth of Actaeon, the huntsman who was turned into a deer by Artemis and torn to pieces by his own hounds. Set in modern context and idiom to explore destruction of a domesticated man.

Comment  In Earth Numb, the third section of 'Moortown'.

Note Tales from Ovid evolved from four pieces Hughes' translated for After Ovid, edited by Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun.