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Lycaon

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Lycaon

turned to wolf for cannibalistic activities; whence, lycanthropy. [Gk. Myth.: Espy, 37]

See : Cannibalism

Lycaon

king turned into a wolf for having served human flesh. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 570]

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] -- Hesiod says she (Callisto) was the daughter of Lycaon and lived in Arcadia.

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Ida, men of substance, who drink the limpid waters of the Aesepus, and are of Trojan blood--these were led by Pandarus son of Lycaon, whom Apollo had taught to use the bow.

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