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section: [ hypothesis ] After the disaster of Chaeronea the Athenian people passed a decree forbidding persons to leave the city or to remove their wives or children. Now a certain Leocrates left the city and, after going to Rhodes and later Megara, returned to Athens. He made no secret of his story and so was accused of treason by Lycurgus.
Zeus thereupon blinded the impious king, who died soon after, for he was hated by the immortal gods. 1 The punishment of Lycurgus was represented in a painting in a temple at Athens. 2. The above Homeric story about Lycurgus has been much varied by later poets and mythographers. Some say that Lycurgus expelled Dionysus from his kingdom, and ...
Sep 9, 2021 · Abstract The relation between the opening section of Plato’s Laws and Xenophon’s Constitution of the Lacedaemonians usually goes unnoticed. This paper draws attention to its importance for understanding Plato’s project in the dialogue. It has three sections. In the first, it will be shown that the view proposed by Plato’s Athenian visitor that Lycurgus made virtue in its entirety the ...
Lycurgus of Athens (c.396-325BC) Pupil of Plato and Isocrates, Lycurgus became a successful financier, statesman and orator in Athens. He increased the wealth of Athens after readministrating its finances, and had several buildings built or refurbished. He was on Demosthenes side in the orators opposition against Philip II of Macedon.
Jan 2, 2024 · Lycurgus Giving Law to the People, Jacopo Palma or Bonifazio de’ Pitati. Eratosthenes and Apollodorus of Athens date Lycurgus’ legislation to the end of the 9th or the beginning of the 8th century BCE. Ephorus suggests a period between 885 and 869 BCE (or around 870 BCE).
LYKOURGOS (Lycurgus) was an impious king of the Edonians of Thrake. He attacked Dionysos when the god was travelling through his land instructing men in the art of winemaking or--in another version of the tale--when the god was a child in the care of the Nymphs of Mount Nysa. As the divine troupe fled his assault, Lykourgos struck down Dionysos ...
Jun 15, 2021 · The agoge was the ancient Spartan education program, which trained male youths in the art of war. The word means "raising" in the sense of raising livestock from youth toward a specific purpose. The program was first instituted by the lawgiver Lycurgus (l. 9th century BCE) and was integral to Sparta ’s military strength and political power.
