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Greek Mythology > People, Places, & Things > Lykaon
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The king of Arkadia (Arcadia) who entertained a stranger who might have been Zeus but Lykaon was unsure.
Lykaon offered his guest human flesh to eat as a test to see if he was a man or a god, i.e. if he could detect the deception, he was indeed a god but if he was unaware that he was being fed human flesh, he was a mortal; the stranger was Zeus and Lykaon was punished by either: 1) being killed outright, or 2) being turned into a wolf; Lykaon had a daughter named Kallisto (Callisto).
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