Lycurgus or Lykourgos () may refer to:
People
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Lycurgus (king of Sparta) (third century BC)
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Lycurgus (lawgiver) (eighth century BC), creator of constitution of Sparta
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Lycurgus of Athens (fourth century BC), one of the 'ten notable orators' at Athens
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Lykourgos Logothetis (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 (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), 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 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
* 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''
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)
Lycurgus is a Dutch professional men's volleyball club based in Groningen
Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the larges ...
, volleyball club from the Netherlands
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Lycurgus Cup, a dichroidic goblet
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Greek masculine given names