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RegionMythology
Greek Pantheon
Coordinates
38.2°N, 22.1°E
About This Location
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.
Primary Sources
“It was a hind with golden horns, sacred to Artemis. He hunted it a whole year.”
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