 For the poet, the transformation was incomplete, and the doe-form had become an offering.Pindar, who was a very knowledgeable mythographer, hints that the mythic doe, even when slain and offered to Artemis, also "continues to exist", to be hunted once again (although not killed) by Heracles at a later time.Karl Kerenyi points out ("The Heroes of the Greeks") "It is not easy to differentiate between the divine beast, the heroine and the goddess".