Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Mythology Wednesday: Arcas

   Callisto was a nymph, daughter of Lycaon, king of what is now Arcadia. She bore a son, Arcas, to Zeus (because, who else is going to be anybody's father?)

   More crazy transformation stuff here- she gets turned into a bear in one of those wacky sitcom-style spats that Greek mythographers just loved to write about. Arcas's father prevents Hera from doing the same to Arcas, and puts him in the Greek Mythological equivalent of the witness protection program/adoption system (which Zeus himself, incidentally, was part of when he was a boy, I recall from a wholly unrelated myth.) King Lycaon gives Arcas up as a human sacrifice, and that's where things get REALLY interesting...

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