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Zeus turning Lycaon into a wolf; engraving by Hendrik Goltzius.. In Greek mythology, Lycaon (/laɪˈkeɪɒn/; Attic Greek: Λυκάων, romanized: Lukáōn, Attic Greek: [ly.kǎː.ɔːn]) was a king of Arcadia who, in the most popular version of the myth, killed and cooked his son Nyctimus and served him to Zeus, to see whether the god was sufficiently all-knowing to recognize human flesh.
Lycaon [1] or Lycon, [2] an Arcadian hero and prince as son of the giant Aezeius, one of the first Peloponnesian kings, by a nymph. He was the father of Deianira, mother of the impious Lycaon below. [3] Lycaon, king of Arcadia and son of Pelasgus. He is the Lycaon who tried to feed Zeus human flesh; in some myths he is turned into a wolf as a ...
Lycaon was the half-brother of Hector. Lycaon lent his cuirass to his brother Paris when he duelled against Menelaus, husband of Helen. [2] On another occasion, Apollo took the shape of Lycaon to address Aeneas. [3] During the Trojan War, Lycaon was captured by Achilles while cutting branches in Priam's orchard.
Some scholars identify Lycaon with Zeus Lycaeus, Zeus in his role as god of light, [citation needed] who slays Nyctimus (the dark), or is succeeded by him, in allusion to the perpetual succession of night and day. The succession of Nyctimus to the throne of Arcadia was explained by Sir James George Frazier in his notes to Apollodorus' The Library:
Lycaon (Greek myth), name of mythological characters named Lycaon Lycaon (son of Priam), son of king Priam of Troy by Laothoe; Lycaon (king of Arcadia), son of Pelasgus and Meliboea, the mythical first king of Arcadia; Lycaon, brother or son of Eurypylus of Cyrene
Heinrich Kiepert. Asia citerior. Lycaonia, 1903. Lycaonia (/ ˌ l ɪ k i ˈ oʊ n i ə /; Greek: Λυκαονία, Lykaonia; Turkish: Likaonya) was a large region in the interior of Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey), north of the Taurus Mountains.
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The northern peak is higher, 1,421 m, than the southern, 1,382 m (4,662 and 4,534 ft). Mount Lykaion was sacred to Zeus Lykaios, who was said to have been born and brought up on it, and was the home of Pelasgus and his son Lycaon, who were said to have founded the ritual of