they fed teenagers to a dragon in Boeotia and Pausanias wrote down how they finally killed it

this one's grim and I love that it's in a straight travel guide, no apologies. Pausanias, book 9, walking through Boeotia, gets to Thespiae and just casually tells you the town used to sacrifice a youth to a dragon every year. lot system. whoever's name comes up, the kid gets given to the drakon. t……