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Friday, August 12, 2016

Mystery bones from ancient Greece may be a teenager sacrificed to Zeus

The ancient Greeks and Romans wrote grisly legends about Mount Lykaion. The Arcadian peak, some would write, was where one of the first Greeks tried to trick Zeus by feeding him a sacrifice tainted with human flesh. In punishment, the legend goes, Lycaon ...


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