Actaeon
Ἀκταίων
A hunter torn apart by his own hounds for seeing Artemis bathe.
Lost in the woods, he stumbled onto the goddess's spring by accident. He did not spy — he simply crossed paths.
Artemis flung water at him, and he became a stag, unable to speak.
His own fifty hunting dogs failed to recognize their master and set upon him.
SourcesOvid, Metamorphoses
Commonly confused
This is not a tale of crime and punishment. Ovid states flatly that his was "not guilt, but bad luck" — a defining example of the mercilessness of the Greek gods.