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Today in underappreciated mythology:

I'm digging into the story of Euthymus, a legendary (but real) Olympian boxing champion from the 5th century BCE. The story says that he defeated a ghost-zombie-werewolf monster in a boxing duel.

The monster was the ghost of one of Odysseus' sailors who violated a maiden in Italia and was stoned to death for it. His vengeful revenant kept demanding a tribute of virgins - until Euthymus showed up and banished him

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Riley S. Faelan
That doesn't sound very Greek to me. Lycanthropy other than by divine fiat or inheritance thereof? Virgins? Are you sure it's not a hostile tale that Greeks' insufferable neighbours told?
Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág
Oh it's Greek. There is a whole book on the Greek hero-cult of Olympian winners :D
(The monster is variously called a ghost, a daimon, or a revenant, but an image of it presents a man in wolf skin. I also read a book on werewolves in Ancient Greece, it had a whole chapter on this story...)
Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág
Tell me "having a bareknuckle boxing duel with a zombie werewolf in a nighttime Greek temple" is not an awesome premise for an encounter. :D
Charnock
That's basically what I tell my children school was like in my day.
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