Agriopas
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Agriopas was a writer of ancient Greece mentioned by Pliny the Elder. He was the author of an account of the Olympic victors, called the Olympionicae. His exact date of birth is unknown.
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Vinony files it under Ancient Greek historians known only from secondary sources, Ancient Greek mythographers and Ancient Olympic Games.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
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- human
- Gender
- male
- Occupation
- non-fiction writer
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
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- date of birth
- 0500-00-00
- writing language
- Ancient Greek
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Agriopas was a writer of ancient Greece mentioned by Pliny the Elder. He was the author of an account of the Olympic victors, called the Olympionicae. His exact date of birth is unknown.
Agriopas is also sometimes cited by writers on werewolf mythology. These writers have handed down Agriopas' tale of Demaenetus of Parrhasia who, during the Arcadian sacrifices for the festival of Zeus 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.
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