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Lykaion, its religious significance, and its quadrennial athletic games appear with some frequency in the ancient literary sources.

The 2nd-century Greek geographer Pausanias provides the greatest amount of information in the eighth book of his Description of Greece, where he discusses Lykaion ’ s mythological, historical, and physical characteristics in detail.

More isolated references occur, however, in sources ranging from Plato to Virgil.