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

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