Lycurgus

(redirected from Lykurgus)
Also found in: Encyclopedia.

Related to Lykurgus: Gerousia, ephors

Ly·cur·gus

(lī-kûr′gəs) fl. ninth century bc.

Spartan lawmaker who is considered the founder of the Spartan constitution.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Lycurgus

(laɪˈkɜːɡəs)

(Biography) 9th century bc, Spartan lawgiver. He is traditionally regarded as the founder of the Spartan constitution, military institutions, and educational system

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

Ly•cur•gus

(laɪˈkɜr gəs)

n.

fl. 9th century B.C., Spartan lawgiver.

References in periodicals archive ?

We have already heard the Spartan Tyrtaios' honest appraisal of the malleable fable of Lykurgus and the two dogs.

This is my Sparta! 300 (1998), 300 (2007), and Three (2014)

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).