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Lycurgus
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Ly·cur·gus  (l-kûrgs) fl. ninth century b.c.
Spartan lawmaker who is considered the founder of the Spartan constitution.

Lycurgus [laɪˈkɜːgəs]
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(Biographies / Lycurgus (9th century bc-9th century bc) M, Spartan, LAW: lawgiver) 9th century bc, Spartan lawgiver. He is traditionally regarded as the founder of the Spartan constitution, military institutions, and educational system


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Thus, the great early lawgivers, those semimythic figures of which early civilizations boasted, among them Ur-Nammu, Hammurabi, Solon, Lykurgus, and the authors of the Roman Twelve Tables, did not set down new law but rather codified what the law was and had always been (Hayek 1973: 81).
 
 
 
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