Lycurgus

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Lycurgus or Lykurgus is a Greek male name most commonly referring to the Lacedaemonian Euhemerus figure but which may refer to any of:

• Lycomedes
• Lycurgus (Sparta), the legendary lawgiver
• Lycurgus (Thrace), an Edonian King who banned the cult of Dionysus, and paid dearly
• Lycurgus, son of Heracles and Toxicrate, daughter of Thespius
• Lycurgus of Athens, an Athenian statesman and one of the ten Attic orators (c.390 - c.325 BC)
• Lycurgus (Arcadia)
• Lycurgus (son of Pronax)
• Lycurgus (King of Nemea)
• Lycurgus (king), co-regent with the last of the Spartan Agiad dynasty, Agesipolis III
• Lycurgus, New York, a fictional town in the Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy