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Lycaeus, name of a mountain in the west of Arcadia, near Bassae, from where there is a view of a large part of the Peloponnese. It was one of the chief centres of the worship of Zeus, who is sometimes given the epithet Lycaeus as a consequence, and the birthplace of the god Pan, who had a sanctuary there.
Lycaeus (Mons Lycaeus, mod. Diaphorti) is 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 practiced 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.
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