Lycurgus, driven mad by Dionysus, attacks his wife. Name-piece of the Lycurgus Painter, 350–340 BC. British Museum.
In Greek mythology, Lycurgus (/laɪˈkɜːrɡəs/; Ancient Greek: Λυκοῦργος Lykoûrgos, Ancient Greek: [lykôrɡos]; also Lykurgos, Lykourgos) was the king of the Edoni in Thrace, son of Dryas, the "oak", and father of a son whose name was also Dryas.[1]
^Homer. Iliad, Book 6.
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Lycurgus (/laɪˈkɜːrɡəs/; Ancient Greek: Λυκοῦργος Lykoûrgos, Ancient Greek: [lykôrɡos]; also Lykurgos, Lykourgos) was the king of the Edoni in Thrace...
including Diomedes, Tereus, Lycurgus, Phineus, Tegyrius, Eumolpus, Polymnestor, Poltys, and Oeagrus (father of Orpheus). Thrace is mentioned in Ovid's Metamorphoses...
was driven into the sea by King LycurgusofThrace. Aphros is glossed as a king of Ancient Libya and the progenitor of the Aphroi (or Carthaginians) according...
century BC) Lycurgus (of Nemea), king Lycurgusof Sparta, creator of constitution of Sparta LycurgusofThrace, king, opponent of Dionysus Lycurgus, a.k.a...
Harmonia into serpents. Only Tiresias is spared. In the Iliad, when King LycurgusofThrace heard that Dionysus was in his kingdom, he imprisoned Dionysus' followers...
LycurgusofThrace and Ambrosia in an upper-story mosaic, as well as Athena and Hermes together with a seated woman in a main-room mosaic. Detail of the...
Head of the old man, from the Palaistra near the lake, end of 2. century BC. Mosaic from the Insula of the Jewellery Mosaic depicting King Lycurgusof Thrace...
(/ˈriːsəs/; Ancient Greek: Ῥῆσος Rhêsos) is a mythical king ofThrace in The Iliad who fought on the side of Trojans. Rhesus arrived late to the battle and while...
of these three maidens at Athens. Theope, one of the Maenads who tried to kill King LycurgusofThrace. Apollodorus, 3.15.8, f.n. 3 as noted by Heyne;...
ofThrace, died in the Trojan war Cisseus, father of Theano, the wife of Antenor Diomedes ofThrace, Giant that ruled over the Bistones Lycurgus, of the...
maenads of the Bacchic thiasus, or ecstatic retinue. There is also a warrior wearing only one sandal, whose identity is disputed: Pentheus, Lycurgusof Thrace...
in the retinue of Dionysus who attempted to kill LycurgusofThrace. Polyxo (or Polyzo), a sister of Meleager. Hyginus, Fabulae Preface Hyginus, De Astronomica...
The Greek myth of Dionysus and Lycurgus preserves the history of the arrival of the cult of Dionysus (Zagreus) in Thrace. Lycurgus (Λυκοῦργος, Lukoûrgos;...
honor of their god, and often handle or wear snakes. These women were mythologized as the "mad women" who were nurses of Dionysus in Nysa. Lycurgus "chased...
ambrosia breathed a holy fragrance." Lycurgus, king ofThrace, forbade the cult of Dionysus, whom he drove from Thrace, and attacked the gods' entourage...
Oeagrus (Greek: Οἴαγρος, translit. Oíagros, lit. "of the wild sorb-apple") was a king ofThrace, and father of Orpheus. There are various versions as to where...
mythology, Edonus Apollodorus 3.5.1 Apollodorus 3.5.1 The Cambridge Ancient History: The fourth century B.C. List of Thracian tribes Lycurgus (Thrace) v t e...
reconstruction of much of their content is a matter of conjecture. In the Edoni (Ἠδωνοί, Ēdōnoí), Dionysus presumably arrived in Thrace where King Lycurgus attempted...
(Lycurgus as father), fr. 752h.26–28 (Lycurgus as priest of Zeus), fr. 757 (Eurydice as mother), fr. 757.41–44 (Hypsipyle as nurse). Although Lycurgus...
father of Priam Lycaon of Arcadia, a deceitful Arcadian king who was transformed by Zeus into a wolf Lycurgusof Arcadia, a king of Arcadia Lycurgus, a king...
appointed as governor of the cities ofThrace which were subject to Ptolemy III Euergetes. Hippomedon was a son of Agesilaus, the uncle of Agis IV. He must...
beginning of the history of Classical Sparta. It is during the reign of King Charillos, that most ancient sources place the life ofLycurgus. Indeed, the...
not actually train for combat. In his Constitution of the Spartans, Xenophon reports that Lycurgus required that women should exercise just as much as...
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