Pelasgus son of Niobe

Pelasgus son of Niobe

Pelasgus, the first king of Arcadia was the son of Zeus and Niobe and the ancestor of the Pelasgians. Herodotus calls the Pelasgians the first men in Greece. Pelasgus's son Lycaon was a cannibal and sacrificed his son to the gods.

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