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Lycaeus
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(Mons Lycaeus, AbXacov Epos: mod. Diaphorti), a mountain in Arcadia, sacred to Zeus Lycaeus, who was said to have been born and brought up on it, and the home of Pelasgus and his son Lycaon, who is said to have founded the ritual of Zeus practised on its summit. This seems to have involved a human sacrifice, and a feast in which the man who received the portion of a human victim was changed to a wolf, as Lycaon had been after sacrificing a child. The altar of Zeus consists of a great mound of ashes with a retaining wall. It was said that no shadows fell within the precincts; and that any who entered it died within the year.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Lycaeus'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/l/lycaeus.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Lycaeus'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/l/lycaeus.html. 1910.
