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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 149 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LYCAEUS (
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Mons Lycaeus, Airxawv opos: mod. Diaphorti)  , a
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mountain in
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Arcadia, sacred to
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Zeus
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Lycaeus, who was said to have been
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born and brought up on it, and the
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home of Pelasgus and his son
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Lycaon, who is said to have founded the
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ritual of Zeus practised on its
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summit . This seems to have involved a human
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sacrifice, and a feast in which the
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man who received the portion of a human victim was changed to a
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wolf, as Lycaon had been after sacrificing a
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child . The
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altar of Zeus consists of a
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great
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mound of ashes with a retaining
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wall . It was said that no shadows
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fell within the precincts; and that any who entered it died within the
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year .

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