Lycurgus

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In Ancient Greece and/or Greek mythology, the name Lycurgus/Lykurgus can refer to:

  1. An alternate name for Lycomedes.
  2. Lycurgus (Sparta): the legendary lawgiver.
  3. Lycurgus (Thrace): an Edonian King who banned the cult of Dionysus, and paid dearly.
  4. Lycurgus, son of Heracles and Toxicrate, daughter of Thespius.
  5. 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.
  6. Lycurgus (King in Arcadia)
  7. Lycurgus (son of Pronax)
  8. Lycurgus (King of Nemea)
  9. Lycurgus, New York: a fictional town in the Theodore Dreiser's novel, An American Tragedy.