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- His name, if not necessarily the origin of, is at least connected to the term Lycanthrope.
- Lycaon is an enemy fought in Baten Kaitos Origins.
- Lycaon is the first lycanthrope and a servant of the Protogenoi Gaea.
- In the most popular version of the myth, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Lycaon was the cruel king of Arcadia, son of Pelasgus and Meliboea. Angered by Zeus' visit being celebrated, Lycaon served him a dish of a slaughtered and dismembered child (in some versions, his son, Nyctimus, and in other versions, his infant grandchild, Arcas) in order to see whether or not Zeus was truly omniscient. Even when offering Zeus the "meal", Lycaon took a taste of it himself. In his quest to test Zeus' immortality, Lycaon attempted to murder the god while he slept. In return for these gruesome deeds, Zeus transformed Lycaon into the form of a wolf, causing him to go on a rampage and slaughter several sheep, and killed Lycaon's fifty sons by lightning bolts, except possibly Nyctimus, who was then the slaughtered c
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