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ISBN10: 6131854610
ISBN13: 9786131854613
Publisher: Alphascript Pub
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.17 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
ISBN13: 9786131854613
Publisher: Alphascript Pub
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.17 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lycurgus (also Lykurgos, Lykourgos) was a king of the Edoni in Thrace, and the son of Dryas, the oak. He banned the cult of Dionysus. When Lycurgus heard that Dionysus was in his kingdom, he imprisoned Dionysus' followers, the Maenads. Dionysus fled, taking refuge with Thetis the sea nymph. Dionysus then sent a drought to Thrace. Going insane, Lycurgus mistook his son for a mature trunk of ivy, which is holy to Dionysus, and killed him, pruning away his nose and ears, fingers and toes. Dionysus decreed that the land would stay dry and barren as long as Lycurgus was left unpunished for his injustice, so his people had him dismembered by wild horses. With Lycurgus dead, Dionysus lifted the curse. In some versions the story of Lycurgus and his punishment by Dionysus is placed in Arabia rather than in Thrace. The tragedian Aeschylus, in a lost play, depicted Lycurgus as a beer-drinker and hence a natural opponent of the wine god. There is a further reference to Lycurgus in Sophocles' Antigone in the Chorus' ode after Antigone is taken away (960 in the Greek text).
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