Greek mythology is replete with Thracian kings, including Diomedes, Tereus, Lycurgus, Phineus, Tegyrius, Eumolpus, Polymnestor, Poltys, and Oeagrus ( father of Orpheus ).

* Athenian statesman and orator, Lycurgus, is given control of the state's finances and goes about doubling the annual public revenues.

In the version that places him in Edonia he is said to be the son of Charops, an adherent of the god Dionysus ; Charops was invited by Dionysus to rule over the Edones after the violent death of their king Lycurgus.

Blass is chiefly known for his works in connection with the study of Greek oratory: Die griechische Beredsamkeit von Alexander bis auf Augustus ( 1865 ); Die attische Beredsamkeit ( 1868 – 1880 ; 2nd ed., 1887 – 1898 ), his greatest work ; editions for the Teubner series of Andocides ( 1880 ), Antiphon ( 1881 ), Hypereides ( 1881, 1894 ), Demosthenes ( Dindorf's ed., 1885 ), Isocrates ( 1886 ), Dinarchus ( 1888 ), Demosthenes ( Rehdantz ed., 1893 ), Aeschines ( 1896 ), Lycurgus, Leocrates ( 1902 ); Die Rhythmen der attischen Kunstprosa ( 1901 ); Die Rhythmen der asianischen und römischen Kunstprosa ( 1905 ).

The section about Orion is Vol XI, p. 557-560: Book IX § 19 is a long chapter about Orion himself ; § 20 – 21 are single paragraphs about his son and grandson ( and the genealogy continues through § 25 about Phyllis daughter of Lycurgus ).

" Being unable to pay the tax levied upon resident aliens, he is said to have been saved only by the courage of the orator Lycurgus, or even to have been bought by Demetrius Phalereus, and then emancipated.

Taylor is best known for his editions of some of the Greek orators, chiefly valuable for the notes on Attic law, e. g. Lysias ( 1739 ); Demosthenes Contra Leptinem ( 1741 ) and Contra Midiam ( 1743, with Lycurgus Contra Leocratem ), intended as specimens of a proposed edition, in five volumes, of the orations of Demosthenes, Aeschines, Dinarchus and Demades, of which only vols.

Walter Burkert has shown that since Lycurgus of Athens ( d. 324 BC ), who held that " it is the oath which holds democracy together ", religion, morality and political organization had been linked by the oath, and the oath and its prerequisite altar had become the basis of both civil and criminal, as well as international law. Burkert, Greek Religion, trans.

The oath was quoted by the Attic orator Lycurgus, in his work Against Leocrates ( 4th century BCE ), though it is certainly archaic ( 5th century BCE ).

Even after the collapse, and idealization, of Sparta, Polybius wrote, " My object, then, in this digression is to make it manifest by actual facts that, for guarding their own country with absolute safety, and for preserving their own freedom, the legislation of Lycurgus was entirely sufficient ; and for those who are content with these objects we must concede that there neither exists nor ever has existed a constitution and civil order preferable to that of Sparta.

Going insane, Lycurgus mistook his son for a mature trunk of ivy, which is holy to Dionysus, and killed him, pruning away his nose and ears, fingers and toes.

In some versions the story of Lycurgus and his punishment by Dionysus is placed in Arabia rather than in Thrace.

There is a further reference to Lycurgus in Sophocles's Antigone in the Chorus's ode after Antigone is taken away ( 960 in the Greek text ).

In Homer's Iliad, an older source than Aeschylus, Dryas is not the son of Lycurgus, but the father, and Lycurgus's punishment for his disrespect towards the gods, particularly Dionysus, is blindness inflicted by Zeus followed not long after by death.

It is not clear if this Lycurgus was an actual historical figure ; however, many ancient historians believed Lycurgus was responsible for the communalistic and militaristic reforms that transformed Spartan society, most notably the Great Rhetra.

The following account is taken almost solely from Plutarch's " Life of Lycurgus ," which is more of an anecdotal collection than a real biography.

The actual person Lycurgus may or may not have existed, but as a symbolic founder of the Spartan state he was looked to as the initiator of many of its social and political institutions ; much, therefore, of Plutarch's account is concerned to find the " origin " of contemporary Spartan practices.

Again, this section is taken mainly from Plutarch, a writer in Greek in the Roman period, and should not be taken as offering verifiable facts about Lycurgus ' life, so much as thoughts of a later age about Spartan institutions and government.

Lycurgus is credited with the formation of many Spartan institutions integral to the country's rise to power, but more importantly its maintenance of a very idiosyncratic form of government and way of life.

Dryden ) That is, Lycurgus is said to have been the originator of the Spartan " Homoioi ," the " Equals ," citizens who had no wealth differentiation among them, an early example of distributism, insofar as the citizens ( not the Helots ) were concerned.

The maddened Hellenic women of real life were mythologized as the mad women who were nurses of Dionysus in Nysa: Lycurgus " chased the Nurses of the frenzied Dionysus through the holy hills of Nysa, and the sacred implements dropped to the ground from the hands of one and all, as the murderous Lycurgus struck them down with his ox-goad.

** Lycurgus of Athens, one of the ten notable orators at Athens, ( fourth century BC )

In the Iliad, Diomedes, one of the leading warriors of the Achaeans, mentions the thyrsus while speaking to Glaucus, one of the Lycian commanders in the Trojan army, about Lycurgus, the king of Scyros:

However, it was the figures of the poets Horace, Homer and Virgil, the philosopher Socrates, and the leaders Lucius Verus and Lycurgus which once graced the exedra whose political message was one of democracy and anti-tyranny.

This attempt ended with the collapse of the institutions of Lycurgus, and one Nabis established a tyranny in Laconia.

Diodorus Siculus ( III. 55 ) relates that, centuries before the Trojan war, king Lycurgus of Thrace exiled one of his commanders, Mopsus, along with Sipylus the Scythian.

Even the Spartan kings wanted Lycurgus to return because they saw him as one who could protect them from the people.

This system of education, famous in antiquity among the other Greeks, was one of the largest and most influential social institutions attributed to Lycurgus.

Bas-relief of Lycurgus, one of 23 great lawgivers depicted in the chamber of the U. S. House of Representatives.

Bas-relief of Lycurgus, one of 23 great lawgivers depicted in the chamber of the U. S. House of Representatives.

* Courtroom friezes: The South Wall Frieze includes figures of lawgivers from the ancient world and includes Menes, Hammurabi, Moses, Solomon, Lycurgus, Solon, Draco, Confucius, and Augustus.

The tragedian Aeschylus, in a lost play, depicted Lycurgus as a beer-drinker and hence a natural opponent of the wine god.

Lycurgus is depicted in several U. S. government buildings because of his legacy as a lawgiver.

Lycurgus is also depicted on the frieze on the south wall of the U. S. Supreme Court building.

In 329 BC it was rebuilt in marble by the archon Lycurgus and in 140 AD was enlarged and renovated by Herodes Atticus, giving a seated capacity of 50, 000.

Lycurgus of Thrace, an antagonist of Dionysus, forbade the cult of Dionysus, whom he drove from Thrace, and was driven mad by the god.

Certainly when somebody asked what gain the laws of Lycurgus had brought Sparta, he answered, " Contempt for pleasures.

Many more errors came from the tendency of actors to interpolate words and sentences, producing so many corruptions and variations that a law was proposed by Lycurgus of Athens in 330 BC "... that the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides should be written down and preserved in a public office ; and that the town clerk should read the text over with the actors ; and that all performances which did not comply with this regulation should be illegal.

His constitution was said to have formed the basis of that of Lycurgus for Sparta.

* Peloponnesian war on Lycurgus. org

* Thucydides on Lycurgus. org

* Xenophon on Lycurgus. org all about Xenophon.

* Lycurgus, Athenian statesman and orator ( b. c. 396 BC )

As a result they carried out a series of political and social reforms of their own society which they later attributed to a semi-mythical lawgiver, Lycurgus.

Some of the most famous of the Apulian vase painters at Taras are now called: the Iliupersis Painter, the Lycurgus Painter, the Gioia del Colle Painter, the Darius Painter, the Underworld Painter, and the White Sakkos Painter, among others.

* Lycurgus, Athenian statesman and orator ( d. 323 BC )

* Drawing upon the tradition of the Spartan lawgiver, Lycurgus, the young Eurypontid king of Sparta, Agis IV, seeks to reform a system that distributes the land and wealth unequally and burden the poor with debt.

According to Diodorus Siculus ( III. 55 ), Mopsus was a Thracian commander who had lived long before the Trojan War, and along with Sipylus the Scythian, had been driven into exile from Thrace by its king Lycurgus.

# Eurynome or Cleophyle, wife of Lycurgus of Arcadia and mother of Amphidamas, Epochus, Ancaeus, and Iasus.

Lycomedes ( also known as Lycurgus ), in Greek mythology, was the King of Scyros during the Trojan War.

** Lycurgus, a. k. a. Lycomedes, in Homer