Agriopas
Agriopas was a writer of ancient Greece mentioned by Pliny the Elder.[1] He was the author of an account of the Olympic victors, called the Olympionicae. His exact date of birth is unknown.[2]
Agriopas is also sometimes cited by writers on
Lycaeus, tasted the viscera of a human child, and was turned into a wolf for ten years. At the end of those ten years he supposedly became a man again and competed in the ancient Olympic Games.[3]
Agriopas was also in some manuscripts of Pliny given as the name of the father of Cinyras, rather than Apollo. Whether this is genuine or an error remains a matter of some debate.[4]
References
- ^ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia viii.(34).82; although some of the extant manuscripts of Pliny have this name as "Acopas" or "Copas"; other works give us the possible names of "Scopas" or "Apollas"
- ^ Mason, Charles Peter (1867). "Agriopas". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 76. Archived from the original on 2015-04-01. Retrieved 2008-05-31.
- ISBN 0-486-43090-1.
- ^ Pliny; John Bostock (trans.) (1890). The Natural History of Pliny. London: William Clowes & Sons. pp. 222.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Agriopas". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
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