Lycurgus or Lykourgos () may refer to:
People
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Lycurgus (king of Sparta)
Lycurgus ( grc-gre, Λυκοῦργος ; 219–217 BC) was a king of Sparta, who reigned from 219 BC until his death shortly before 211 BC. Of obscure background and possibly of non-royal descent, Lycurgus led Sparta in the Social War (220–217 ...
(third century BC)
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Lycurgus (lawgiver)
Lycurgus (; grc-gre, wikt:Λυκοῦργος, Λυκοῦργος ; 820 BC) was the quasi-legendary lawgiver of Sparta who established the military-oriented reformation of Spartan society in accordance with the Pythia, Oracle of Apollo at Del ...
(eighth century BC), creator of constitution of Sparta
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Lycurgus of Athens
Lycurgus (; Greek: ''Lykourgos''; c. 390 – 324 BC) was a logographer in Ancient Greece. He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian Canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the third ce ...
(fourth century BC), one of the 'ten notable orators' at Athens
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Lykourgos Logothetis
Lykourgos Logothetis ( el, Λυκούργος Λογοθέτης, 10 February 1772 – 25 May 1850 (O.S.)), born Georgios Paplomatas, was a Samian who became the island's leader during the Greek War of Independence.
The son of a wealthy mercha ...
(1772–1850), leader of Samos in the Greek War of Independence
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Lycurgus Johnson
Lycurgus Johnson (1818-1876) was an American cotton planter and large slaveholder in the Arkansas Delta during the antebellum years. Born to the powerful political and planter Johnson family in Scott County, Kentucky, he became the owner and dev ...
(1818–1876), American cotton planter and politician
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Lycurgus J. Rusk (1851–1928), American politician
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Lycurgus Conner (1909–1963), American politician
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George Lycurgus
George Lycurgus ( grc-gre, Γεώργιος Λυκούργος) (1858–1960) was a Greek American businessman who played an influential role in the early tourist industry of Hawaii. After Queen Lili`uokalani was overthrown in a coup by the Commit ...
(1858–1960), Greek–American businessman and Hawaiian royalist
Mythology
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Lycurgus (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Lycurgus (; Ancient Greek: Λυκοῦργος ''Lykoûrgos'', Ancient Greek: ), also Lykurgos or Lykourgos, may refer to the following individuals:
* Lycurgus, son of Aleus, and king of Tegea in Arcadia
* Lycurgus, a king o ...
, name of mythological characters named Lycurgus
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Lycurgus of Arcadia In Greek mythology, Lycurgus (; Ancient Greek: Λυκοῦργος ''Lykoûrgos'', ), also Lykurgos or Lykourgos, was a king of Tegea in Arcadia.
Family
Lycurgus was the son of Aleus, the previous ruler of Tegea, and Neaera, daughter of Pereus, ...
, king
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Lycurgus (of Nemea)
In Greek mythology, Lycurgus (; Ancient Greek: Λυκοῦργος ''Lykoûrgos'', Ancient Greek: ), also spelled Lykurgos or Lykourgos, was the son of Pheres, and the husband of Eurydice (or Amphithea) by whom he was the father of Opheltes. In th ...
, son of Pheres
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Lycurgus of Thrace
In Greek mythology, Lycurgus (/laɪˈkɜːrɡəs/; Ancient Greek: Λυκοῦργος ''Lykoûrgos'', Ancient Greek: ykôrɡos (also Lykurgos, Lykourgos) was the king of the Edoni in Thrace, son of Dryas, the "oak", and father of a son whose na ...
, king, opponent of Dionysus
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Lycomedes
In Greek mythology, Lycomedes ( grc, Λυκομήδης), also known as Lycurgus, was the most prominent king of the Dolopians in the island of Scyros near Euboea during the Trojan War.
Family
Lycomedes was the father of seven daughters inclu ...
or Lycurgus, in Homer
* Lycurgus, son of
Pronax
In Greek mythology, Pronax (; Ancient Greek: Πρῶναξ) was one of the sons of Talaus and Lysimache, a brother of Adrastus and Eriphyle, and the father of Lycurgus and Amphithea. According to some accounts, he died before the war of the Seven a ...
* Lycurgus, son of Heracles by Toxicrate, daughter of
Thespius In Greek mythology, Thespius (; Ancient Greek: Θέσπιος ''Théspios'') or Thestius (; Ancient Greek: Θέστιος)Pausanias, 9.27.7 was a legendary founder and king of Thespiae, Boeotia. His life account is considered part of Greek mythology ...
* Lycurgus, a suitor of
Hippodamia of Pisa
Hippodamia (, ; also Hippodamea and Hippodameia; Ancient Greek: Ἱπποδάμεια "she who masters horses" derived from ''hippos'' "horse" and ''damazein'' "to tame") was a Greek mythological figure. She was the queen of Pisa as the wife o ...
Places
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Lycurgus, Iowa
Lycurgus is a rural unincorporated community in Allamakee County, Iowa
Iowa () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. I ...
, United States, unincorporated community
* Lycurgus, New York, a fictional location in the novel ''
An American Tragedy
''An American Tragedy'' is a 1925 novel by American writer Theodore Dreiser. He began the manuscript in the summer of 1920, but a year later abandoned most of that text. It was based on the notorious murder of Grace Brown in 1906 and the trial of ...
''
Other uses
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''Lycurgus'' (album), a 1975 album by Peter Lang
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''Lycurgus'' (cicada), a genus of cicadas
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Lycurgus (volleyball), volleyball club from the Netherlands
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Lycurgus Cup
The Lycurgus Cup is a 4th-century Roman glass cage cup made of a dichroic glass, which shows a different colour depending on whether or not light is passing through it: red when lit from behind and green when lit from in front. It is the only c ...
, a dichroidic goblet
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