King Lycaon of Arcadia – The First Werewolf?
In Greek myth, King Lycaon tried to force a god into cannibalism and for his crime he may have become the first werewolf.
Source: ancient-origins.net
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Four Things You (Probably) Don't Know about the Werewolves of the Ancient World
The modern conception of the werewolf and his lore (it usually is his) is mainly conveyed by the movies, in an unbroken chain beginning with Universal Pictures’ The Wolf Man of 1941, starring Lon Chaney Jr., and continuing today in the rather good Underworld series. The roots of these lie in the pulp fiction of the early twentieth century. Amongst all this, werewolf afficionados usually single out one novel as retaining some literary merit, Guy Endore’s 1933 The Werewolf of Paris. But what about before this? Many may instinctively imagine roots further back in the medieval world, and ...
Source: hnn.us