The costellation represents from the times of the Greeks an unidentified wild
animal offered in sacrifice from the neighbor centauro. It was not separated
from the Centauro until Ipparco did call it "Therion" in the II century a.C..
The definitive affirmation of the wolf in quality of sacrifical animal them
was only had in the Rinascimento. In the history of the king Licaone, king
of the Arcadia transformed to wolf from Zeus.