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1. Lycurgus was driven mad and killed his own son Dryas with an axe thinking he was a vine. (Web site)
2. Lycurgus was driven mad and killed his own son Dryas with an axe thinking he was a vine, and hewed at his own foot thinking it one. (Web site)
3. Lycurgus was one of the leading politicians in Athens during the reign of Alexander the Great and put Athenian public finances on a more secure footing. (Web site)
4. Another Lycurgus, the Athenian statesman, read the text of a Spartan law in an Athenian courthouse. (Web site)

King Lycurgus

1. King Lycurgus and Eurydice mourn their son, and the Argives suggest the institution of the Nemean games to commemorate Opheltes.

Sea

1. Lycurgus drives Dionysus and the Bacchantes into the sea with a massive pole-axe.

Reforms

1. These reforms, attributed to the shadowy Lycurgus of Sparta, were probably complete by 650 BC. (Web site)
2. From c. 650 BC, following the reforms of Lycurgus, it rose to become the dominant military land-power in ancient Greece.

Madness

1. When this was done, his madness ceased, but the country still remained barren, and Dionysus declared that it would remain so till Lycurgus died.

Little Change

1. Under the strict laws of Lycurgus it had maintained its primitive monarchical form of government with little change (see Lycurgus). (Web site)

Greek World

1. This school had famous pupils from all over the Greek world, such as the historians Ephorus and Theopompus and orators Isaeus, Lycurgus, and Hypereides. (Web site)

Chariot Racing

1. Lycurgus criticized chariot racing by saying that it was not as useful as building city walls or temples.

Father

1. There is also a mound of earth which is the tomb of Lycurgus, the father of Opheltes.

Heracles

1. Lycurgus also provided Heracles with a male lover— Elacatas, who was honored there with a sanctuary and yearly games. (Web site)

Son

1. But Lycurgus, son of Dryas, was king of the Edonians, who dwell beside the river Strymon, and he was the first who insulted and expelled him. (Web site)
2. The Argives, on the verge of death, and maddened with thirst, come upon Hypsipyle, the nurse of Opheltes, the son of Lycurgus, King of Nemea. (Web site)
3. Lycurgus, son of Dryas, killed himself in madness sent by Liber. (Web site)

Lacedaemon

1. Whatever the case, the changes attributed to Lycurgus marked the imposition of a thorough and dangerous despotism on all the inhabitants of Lacedaemon.

Cepheus

1. And Aleus had a daughter Auge and two sons, Cepheus and Lycurgus, by Neaera, daughter of Pereus. (Web site)

Bacchus

1. He pruned the corpse, and the Edonians, horrified, instructed by Bacchus, tore Lycurgus to pieces with wild horses on Mount Pangaeum. (Web site)
2. Bk XI:67-84. The Edonians were a Thracian people, ruled at one time by Lycurgus who was destroyed by Bacchus for opposing his worship. (Web site)

Thrace

1. When King Lycurgus of Thrace heard that Dionysus was in his kingdom, he imprisoned all the followers of Dionysus, the Maenads. (Web site)

Plutarch

1. Plutarch, in Life of Lycurgus (XII, 13) tells how the king of Pontus, eager to try the famous Spartan "black gruel", bought a Laconian cook.

King

1. Ancaeus or Ankaios, son of King Lycurgus of Arcadia, was both an Argonaut and a participant in the Calydonian Boarhunt, in which he met his end.
2. Phyllis is the daughter of King Lycurgus of Thrace, and now rules his kingdom.
3. And when Dionysus was persecuted by King Lycurgus of the Edonians, he found refuge in the sea with her.

Tegea

1. Ancaeus, son of Lycurgus; others say grandson, from Tegea.
2. Timandra was married to Echemus, son of Aeropus, who succeeded king Lycurgus of Tegea.

Axe

1. Dionysus then made King Lycurgus insane, having him slice his own son into pieces with an axe, thinking he was a patch of ivy, a plant holy to Dionysus. (Web site)
2. Dionysus drove Lycurgus mad, so that he chopped up his own son with an axe, believing he was pruning a vine. (Web site)

Isocrates

1. Among the most celebrated orators were Antiphon, Andocides, Lysias, Isocrates, Isaeus, Lycurgus, Aeschines, and, considered the greatest of all, Demosthenes. (Web site)

Pentheus

1. You, the revered one, punished Pentheus, and Lycurgus, king of Thrace, who carried the double-headed axe, and you sent the Tyrrhenians into the waves. (Web site)
2. He is confronted by a king, Lycurgus or Pentheus, who opposes him, and whom he punishes terribly in return.

Dionysus

1. Lycurgus, king of Thrace, chased Dionysus with an ox goad and had his followers imprisoned. (Web site)
2. In return Dionysus made the king go mad, and while thinking he was cutting down a grapevine, Lycurgus severed his own leg with an axe.
3. When Dionysus was expelled by Lycurgus with the Olympians' aid, he took refuge in the Erythraean Sea with Thetis in a bed of seaweed. (Web site)

Spartans

1. The famous laws of Lycurgus were crafted to stabilise the society and were impressed into the psyche of all Spartans. (Web site)
2. Before Solon lived, Lycurgus had given laws to the Spartans. (Web site)

Spartan

1. A Spartan, son of Lycurgus the orator.

Sparta

1. The love of money had virtually destroyed the laws of Lycurgus in Sparta by the time Agis became king. (Web site)
2. He succeeded Lycurgus, and married Timandra, daughter of Leda and Tyndareus of Sparta.
3. And Lycurgus ordained in Sparta very cheap sacrifices, that they might always worship the Gods readily and easily with such things as were at hand. (Web site)

Trojan War

1. Demophon married Phyllis, daughter of Lycurgus, King of Thrace, while he stopped in Thrace on his journey home from the Trojan war.

Lycurgus

1. In Greek mythology, Lycomedes (also known as Lycurgus) was the King of Scyros during the Trojan War.
2. King of Tegea in Arcadia, son either of Aleus or of Lycurgus 2; his mother (Aleus' wife) could have been either Neaera 3 or Cleobule 1. (Web site)
3. Lycurgus, published his laws in the Reign of Agesilaus, the son and successor of Doryagus, in the Race of the Kings of Sparta descended from Eurysthenes. (Web site)

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