The origin of the legend can be traced back to classical Greece, with the legend of King Lycaon, king of Arcadia, son of Pelasgus and Melibea, or perhaps of Titan and Earth, although he was a good ruler who brought his town and erected an altar to Zeus, he came to commit human sacrifices, to the point of killing any foreigner who appeared in the city, violating one of the most sacred laws in Greece, that of hospitality. Knowing Zeus pretended to be a stranger, and stayed at the Palace of Lycaon, the king's subjects sensed something, Lycaon to make sure he served the meat of one of his victims to Zeus, who furiously destroyed the palace and transformed the king into a wolf. According to legend, the first recognized werewolf was Lycaon, king of Arcadia, Greece. In Greek mythology, Lycaon was a wise and cultured king and a very religious person who had brought his people out of the savage conditions in which they originally lived.