Μαιναλος
The hero who gave his name to the Arcadian mountain and to the city of Maenalon. He was the eldest son of LYCAON; according to one tradition it was he who advised his father to offer Zeus the limbs of a child cooked as if it were ordinary meat, as a way of testing the god. He and his father were both struck down by a thunderbolt. According to another tradition Maenalus was not the son of Lysaon, but of Arcas, king of Arcadia, and therefore was the brother of ATALANTA.
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Table of Sources:
- Apollod. Bibl. 3,8,1;
- Paus. 8,3,1;
- schol. on Apoll. Rhod. Arg. 1,168; 769;
- schol. on Theocr. 1,129;
- Tzetzes on Lyc. Alex. 481.