Ancyor

Ancyor is presented in the surviving summary tradition as one of the many sons of King Lycaon of Arcadia. In the standard account preserved in mythographic compilations and summarized in modern references, Lycaon and his sons were notorious for impiety; to test them Zeus visited in the guise of a peasant. According to these summaries, Ancyor and his brothers mixed the entrails of a child into the god's meal (an act of sacrilege and implied cannibalism), whereupon Zeus revealed his divinity or reacted with divine wrath and destroyed Lycaon, his sons (including Ancyor), and in some variants the household by a thunderbolt. Primary classical authors such as Apollodorus and Pausanias are cited in the modern summaries for the broader Lycaon narrative, while Ancyor appears as an itemized name in genealogical lists collected by modern compendia and databases.

No physical description of Ancyor is provided in the available source material; he is treated as a named member of Lycaon's brood rather than an individuated figure with distinct iconographic attributes. The surviving references list him among genealogical rosters of Arcadian princes and give no details of dress, stature, or distinguishing marks. Modern summaries and name-lists likewise do not attribute any iconographic tradition or literary portrait to Ancyor.

The sources do not ascribe any supernatural abilities or ongoing agency to Ancyor; he is presented as mortal. His reported behavior is participation in the collective impiety of Lycaon's sons—specifically the act of serving human entrails to a guest who was Zeus in disguise—which results in immediate divine retribution. The Lycaon cycle in broader tradition contains motifs of transformation and divine punishment (e.g., Lycaon's own transformation in certain versions), but no sources provided here attribute powers to Ancyor himself.