Lycaeus (Mons Lycaeus, 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.
initial entry from a 1911 encyclopedia
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