Werewolf
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In folklore, a werewolf, or occasionally lycanthrope, is an individual who can shapeshift into a wolf or therianthropic hybrid wolf–humanlike creature, either voluntarily or involuntarily due to a cur
Dolon wearing a wolfskin. Attic red-figure vase, c. 460 BC.
Zeus turning Lycaon into a wolf, engraving by Hendrik Goltzius.
A Vendel period depiction of a warrior wearing a wolf skin (Tierkrieger).
A German woodcut from 1722
Petronius
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Gaius Petronius Arbiter was a Roman courtier during the reign of Nero. He is generally believed to be the author of the Satyricon, a satirical novel believed to have been written during the Neronian e
Werewolf
…full moon and transmitted by a bite or scratch from another werewolf. Early sources for belief in this ability or affliction, called lycanthropy, are Petronius (27–66) and Gervase of Tilbury (1150–1228). The werewolf is a widespread concept in European folklore, existing in many variants, which are related by…
Leo Genn as Petronius in the 1951 film Quo Vadis
The Death of Petronius (Piotr Stachiewicz, c. 1900)