Lycurgus
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In Ancient Greece and/or Greek mythology, the name Lycurgus/Lykurgus can refer to:
- An alternate name for Lycomedes.
- Lycurgus (Thrace): an Edonian King who banned the cult of Dionysus, and paid dearly.
- Lycurgus (Sparta): the legendary lawgiver.
- Lycurgus of Athens: an Athenian statesman and one of the ten Attic orators (c.390 - c.325 BC); Against Leocrates is the only surviving speech by this Lycurgus, of the fifteen that Caecilius of Calacte considered genuine.
- Lycurgus (King in Arcadia)
- Lycurgus (son of Pronax)
- Lycurgus (King of Nemea)
- Lycurgus, New York: a fictional town in the Theodore Dreiser's novel, An American Tragedy
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Lycurgus" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycurgus, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
