Lycaon’s Family Tree

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Family

• Cyllene(parent),Pelasgus(parent)— Consort

  Lycaon was the son of Pelasgus, the autochthonous first king of Arcadia, and the nymph Cyllene, according to Apollodorus.

• Callisto(child)

  Callisto was the daughter of Lycaon, king of Arcadia, according to the most common tradition in Apollodorus, Ovid, and Pausanias.

• Nyctimus(child)

  Nyctimus was the youngest of Lycaon's fifty sons and the only one spared when Zeus destroyed the house of Lycaon with thunderbolts.

Associated with

• Arcas

  In Hyginus's account, Lycaon or his sons slaughtered the infant Arcas and served his flesh to Zeus at the impious banquet, testing the god's omniscience.

• Deucalion

  In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Zeus cited Lycaon's impiety as evidence of humanity's corruption when arguing before the gods for sending the great flood that only Deucalion and Pyrrha survived.

• Zeus

  Lycaon tested Zeus's omniscience by serving him human flesh at a banquet. Zeus recognized the abomination and punished Lycaon by transforming him into a wolf.