Greek PantheonRegion
Ceryneia
The Arcadian hills of the Ceryneian hind, the golden-horned deer sacred to Artemis that Heracles pursued for a year in his third labour and brought back alive.
About Ceryneia
Hind of Artemis
Apollodorus 2.5.3: the third labor is to bring the Ceryneian hind alive, a golden-horned deer sacred to Artemis. Heracles hunts it a year, wounds it, and argues with Artemis and Apollo before they allow the loan to Eurystheus. The hills are in Achaea. There is no independent hind-epic. The labor is a piety test: catch the goddess's animal without claiming it as meat.
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- Apollodorus, Library 2.5.3
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