Portheus, an
Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King
Lycaon either by the
naiadCyllene,[1]Nonacris[2] or by unknown woman. He and his brothers were the most nefarious and carefree of all people. To test them,
Zeus visited them in the form of a peasant. These brothers mixed the entrails of a child into the god's meal, whereupon the enraged king of the gods threw the meal over the table. Portheus was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt of the god.[3]
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