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.

** Lycurgus of Thrace, king, opponent of Dionysus

Dryas was the son of King Lycurgus, king of the Edoni in Thrace.

In his madness, Lycurgus pruned the corpse of Dryas of its nose, ears, fingers and toes: the land of Thrace dried up in horror.

In Greek mythology, Lycurgus ( 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.

When Lycurgus heard that Dionysus was in his kingdom, he imprisoned Dionysus's followers, the Maenads, or drove them and Dionysus out of Thrace with an ox-goad.

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.

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

* Lycurgus ( Thrace )

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.

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.

He was killed when Lycurgus went insane and mistook him for a mature trunk of ivy, a plant holy to the god Dionysus, whose cult Lycurgus was attempting to extirpate.

Resisting the arrival of the god, Lycurgus had pursued all of Dionysus ' followers, the Maenads, with an ox-goad and imprisoned them ; Dionysus was forced to flee to the undersea grotto of Thetis the sea nymph.

The compiler of Bibliotheke ( 3. 5. 1 ) says that Dionysus drove Lycurgus insane.

With Lycurgus dead, Dionysus lifted the curse.

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.

Dionysus decreed that the land would stay dry and barren as long as Lycurgus was left unpunished for his injustice, so his people bound him and flung him to man-eating horses on Mount Pangaeüs.

With Lycurgus dead, Dionysus lifted the curse.

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.

The Theater of Dionysus in its present general state dates largely to the period of the Athenian statesman Lycurgus ( ca.

The name " Nysa " was mentioned in Homer's Iliad ( Chapter 6. 132-133 ), where he refers to a hero named Lycurgus, " who once drove the nursing mothers of wine-crazed Dionysus over the sacred mountains of Nysa.

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

Plutarch wrote: " And this was the reason why he ( Lycurgus ) forbade them to travel abroad, and go about acquainting themselves with foreign rules of morality, the habits of ill-educated people, and different views of government.

In 1874 and again in 1875, he presided over the Reunion Conferences held at Bonn and attended by leading ecclesiastics from the British Isles and from the Oriental non-Roman Churches, among whom were Bishop Christopher Wordsworth of Lincoln ; Bishop Harold Browne of Ely ; Lord Plunket, archbishop of Dublin ; Lycurgus, Greek Orthodox archbishop of Syros and Tenos ; Canon Liddon ; and the Russian Orthodox Professor Ossmnine of St. Petersburg.

He it was that / drove the nursing women who were in charge / of frenzied Bacchus through the land of Nysa ,/ and they flung their thyrsi on the ground as / murderous Lycurgus beat them with his ox -/ goad.

Lycurgus, son of Dryas, was a mythical king of the Edoni, who drove Dionysus into exile in the islands but was ultimately overthrown and killed by his own people.

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.

That he studied general history, as we see from the quotations in Plutarch's lives of Lycurgus, Solon, Aristides, Pericles, Nicias, Alcibiades, Lysander, Agesilaus, and Demosthenes, which were probably borrowed from the work on Lives.

* Plutarch: " Lycurgus " and " Solon " from the Parallel Lives

According to folklore, agoge was introduced by the semi-mythical Spartan law-giver Lycurgus but its origins are thought to be between the 7th and 6th centuries BC when the state trained male citizens from the ages of seven to twenty-one.

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 Egyptians claim that Lycurgus visited them too, and that it was from the Egyptians that he got the idea of separating the military from the menial workers, thus refining Spartan society.

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

A hundred and thirty years after the death of Lycurgus, a council of five ephors took executive power from the kings.

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.

The earliest version of the story of Codrus comes from the 4th oration Against Leocrates by Lycurgus.

Agis, who from his earliest youth had shown his attachment to the ancient discipline, undertook to reform these abuses, and re-establish the institutions of Lycurgus.

Other notable depictions in art include the silver " Great Dish " from the Mildenhall Treasure, the Lycurgus Cup, and in the Renaissance Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne.

* 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.

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

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

* Iasus ( Iasius ), father of Atalanta by Clymene, daughter of Minyas ; he was the son of King Lycurgus of Arcadia by either Eurynome or Cleophyle.

* Butes, a Thracian, Boreas ' son, who was hostile towards his stepbrother Lycurgus and was driven out of the country by him.

An oracle predicted that the land would stay dry and barren as long as Lycurgus was alive, so his people had him torn apart by wild horses.

According to Homer, it was him who Lycurgus killed.

Lycurgus wanted revenge upon Hypsipyle, but she was protected by Adrastus, the leader of the Argives.

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.

Herodotus claimed that the institution was created by Lycurgus, while Plutarch considers it a later institution.

For example, the transitory success of Agis and Cleomenes of ancient Sparta in restoring the constitution of Lycurgus was considered by Plutarch to be counterrevolutionary in a positive sense.

The men would become the " walls of Sparta " because Sparta was the only Greek city with no defensive walls after they had been demolished at the order of Lycurgus.