Orion (mythology)
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In Greek mythology, Orion was a giant huntsman whom Zeus or Artemis placed among the stars as a constellation. He was venerated as a hero in the region of Boeotia, and there is one etiological passage
An engraving of Orion from Johann Bayer's Uranometria, 1603 (US Naval Observatory Library)
Nicolas Poussin (1658) "Landscape with blind Orion seeking the sun"
Daniel Seiter's 1685 painting of Diana over Orion's dead body, before he is placed in the heavens
The Fountain of Orion, in Messina, Italy
Tityos
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Tityos or Tityus is a giant from Greek mythology. The son of Zeus and the mortal Elara, Tityos tried to rape the goddess Leto, a former lover of Zeus and the mother of the twin gods Artemis and Apollo
Tityos attempts to rape Leto and is stopped by Apollo and Artemis on an Attic red-figure amphora from Vulci, c. 510–520 BCE, by the Phintias Painter. Louvre, Paris.
Michelangelo, The Punishment of Tityus, c. 1532