Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Autonoe.
The gallery
Death of Actaeon Reported to Autonoe and Aristaeus
Unknown (Attic red-figure), c. 470–460 BC
Louvre krater CA 3482: while Artemis drives deer and Actaeon dies, a messenger reports to his parents — Autonoe and Aristaeus named in the scene. Cadmus' daughter as grieving mother, not only as Bacchant.
Death of Actaeon (Louvre krater, full)
Unknown (Attic red-figure), c. 470–460 BC
Full view of the same Louvre crater: Actaeon's doom and the parental pair — Autonoe among the Cadmean women whose house Artemis and Dionysus both shatter.
Torment of Pentheus (House of the Vettii)
Unknown (Pompeian fresco), 1st century AD
Pompeii fresco of Pentheus torn by maenads — Autonoe among the Cadmean sisters Euripides drives mad with Agave on Cithaeron.
Actaeon Torn by Dogs (terracotta lamp)
Unknown (Roman), 1st century AD
Roman lamp of Actaeon's death — Autonoe's son destroyed by his own hounds, the Cadmean mother's grief cast in clay for everyday light.