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

Actaeon or Acteon may also refer to:

Mythology

• Actaeon, son of Melissus, another mythical person, victim of Archias of Corinth

Arts and entertainment

• Acteón (film), 1965 Spanish film
• Actéon (opera), a 1684 French opera by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
• Actaeon, a non-surviving 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

Transportation and military

• Actaeon (1815 ship), merchant ship wrecked in 1822, lending its name to Actaeon Island
• HMS Actaeon or HMS Acteon, several ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy
• Actaeon, a Priam-class locomotive of the Great Western Railway
• French submarine Actéon (Q149), a French Navy submarine commissioned in 1931 and sunk in 1942

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

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Actaeon
• All pages with titles containing Actaeon
• All pages with titles containing Acteon
• All pages with titles beginning with Acteon
• Acteonidae

• Disambiguation pages