Jonathan Cohen's photos

Another statue by the Malagueño sculptor, José Seguiri on an ancient Greco-Roman theme. This one depicts the Abduction of the Sabine women.

In Greek mythology, Actaeon was a son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe, the eldest daughter of Cadmus, founder of Thebes, Greece, and the goddess Harmonia. Like Achilles in a later generation, Actaeon was trained by the centaur Chiron. He fell to the fatal wrath of Artemis, but the surviving details of his transgression vary: "the only certainty is in what Aktaion suffered, his pathos, and what Artemis did: the hunter became the hunted; he was transformed into a stag, and his raging hounds, struck with a ‘wolf’s frenzy’ (Lyssa), tore him apart as they would a stag." This is the iconic motif by which Actaeon is recognized, both in ancient art and in Renaissance and post-Renaissance depictions. This statue is the work of the Malagueño sculptor, José Seguiri.