Lycurgus

Type Figure Region Ancient Greece Time c. -885–-801 Also known as Lycurgus、Lycurgus of Sparta、Λυκοῦργος、Lykourgos

Lycurgus is Sparta's legendary lawgiver, to whom classical writers attribute nearly the whole constitution, common meals, and military education beyo…

Timeline

c. -885Sparta · LacedaemonHerodotus already records two sources: the laws came either from the Pythia at Delphi or, as Spartans claimed, imitated from Crete. He is said to have been regent for a young king (Leobotes of the Agiads or Charilaus of the Eurypontids, both houses vying to claim him). Tyrtaeus's poems contain no Lycurgus, so many modern historians date the legend's formation to the late 7th–6th centuries BCE. Plutarch's Life of Lycurgus is the fullest literary biography, opening by admitting the date cannot be determined.

Sources

Lycurgus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycurgus
Lycurgus of Sparta https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310426
Life of Lycurgus — Plutarch https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plut.+Lyc.+1