Lycaon

Lycaon is an exceptionally antagonistic figure in Greek mythology who tested the might of Zeus and was severely punished for his transgressions - his name may of given rise to the term "lycanthropy".

Lycaon was the cruel king of Arcadia, son of Pelasgus and Meliboea, who tested Zeus by serving him a dish of a slaughtered and dismembered child in order to see whether Zeus was truly omniscient. In his quest to test Zeus' immortality Lycaon attempted to murder the god while he slept. In return for these gruesome deeds Zeus transformed Lycaon into the form of a wolf, and killed Lycaon's fifty sons by lightning bolts, except possibly Nyctimus, who was then the slaughtered child, and instead became restored to life