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	Thrace Encyclopedia Article @ Gpzy.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Homeric Thrace was vaguely defined, and stretched from the River Strymon in the west to the Hellespont and Black Sea in the east.
		Thrace: Thracians led by Acamas and Peiros, from Aenus; Cicones led by Euphemus, from southern Thrace, near Ismarus; and from the city of Sestus, on the Thracian (northern) side of the Hellespont, which formed part of the contingent led by Asius.
		Thrace south of the Danube (except for the land of the Bessi) was ruled for nearly half a century by the Persians under Darius the Great, who conducted an expedition into the region from 513 BC to 512 BC.
	www.gpzy.com /encyclopedia/Thrace (2194 words)

	Lycurgus
		When Lycurgus heard that Dionysus was in his kingdom, imprisoned all the followers of Dionysus, the Maenads.
		Dionysus made King Lycurgus insane, and he sliced his own son into pieces with an axe, thinking he was a patch of ivy[?], a plant holy to Dionysus.
		Lycurgus is also the name of an Athenian orator (c.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ly/Lycurgus.html (131 words)

	Lycurgus (Thrace) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Lycurgus was the King of the Edones in Thrace, and the father of Dryas.
		Going insane, Lycurgus mistook his son for a patch of ivy, which is holy to Dionysus, and killed him.
		An oracle then predicted that the land would stay dry and barren as long as Lycurgus was alive, so his people had him drawn and quartered.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/l/ly/lycurgus__thrace_.html (124 words)

	Lycurgus
		Lycurgus was king of the Edones in Thrace (Central Greece), son of Dryas.
		He was completely opposed to the cult of Dionysus (the cult of Dionysus originated in Thrace, or in some versions Asia Minor) and all of his followers (mainly women who were called Maenads).
		Dionysus also turned the king mad, giving him hallucinations, one of which made Lycurgus hack his own son to death with an axe, thinking he was a clump of ivy (a plant sacred to Dionysus).
	www.pantheon.org /articles/l/lycurgus.html (252 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Thrace economic, political and cultural connections with the rest of the Eastern Mediterranean, the Near East, the Balkans and the Black Sea hinterland states, had fastly distinguished it as one of the largest and leading centres of the ancient world.
		492 The northern Aegean Coast, Thrace and Macedonia are conquered by the son-in-law of Darius 1, Mardonius.
		15 (13?) Uprising of the Bessi in Thrace, led by the priest in the sanctuary of Dionysus, Vologaesus.
	www.thrace.0catch.com /main_history.htm (14129 words)

	Wikinfo \| Lycurgus
		Lycurgus (Thrace): an Edonian King who banned the cult of Dionysus, and paid dearly.
		Lycurgus of Athens: an Athenian statesman and one of the ten Attic orators (c.
		Lycurgus, New York: a fictional town in the Theodore Dreiser's novel, An American Tragedy
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Lycurgus (153 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 849 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		130, andc.) The punishment of Lycurgus was represented in a painting in a temple at Athens.
		When this was done, Lycurgus recovered his mind ; but his country produced no fruit, and the oracle declared that fertility should not be restored unless Lycurgus were killed.
		A son of Aleus and Neaera, and a brother of Cepheus and Auge, was king in Arcadia, and married to Cleophile, Eurynome, or Antinoe, by whom he became the father of Ancaeus, Epochus, Amphidamas, and Jasus.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1957.html (890 words)

	Greek Bronze
		Lycurgus was King of the Edoni in Thrace and father of Dryas.
		In opposition to the cult of Dionysus, Lycurgus ripped down the god's vines and imprisoned his followers, the Maenads.
		Dionysus in return sent a drought to Thrace which drove Lycurgus mad and in his insanity he mistook his son Dryas for a patch of ivy holy to Dionysus and killed him.
	www.royalathena.com /pages/greekcatpages/Bronze/Male/BLW103.html (134 words)

	..:: Trakia Travels ::.. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Thrace, historical, legendary and mythological, Thrace of the Sacred Orality of words and music, is coded in the treasures of its king-priests.
		Regarding Thrace the anonymity was broken after the middle of the second millennium BC – the period till, during and after the Trojan War.
		Asia Minor Thrace w The eastern and southern parts of Thrace, both in Europe and in Asia Minor, were Hellenised quite early, from the eighth century BC onwards, which induced the creative contacts and cultural synthesis.
	www.pomorie.com /trakiatravels/en/trakia.html (2179 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1047 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Besides the nymphs of mount Nysa in Thrace, the muses, Lydae, Bassarae, Macetae, Mimallones (Eustath.
		16.) On his passage through Thrace he was ill received by Lycurgus, king of the Edones, and leaped into the sea to seek refuge with Thetis, whom he afterwards rewarded for her kind reception with a golden urn, a present of Hephaestus.
		After then proceeding through Thrace without meeting with any farther resistance, he returned to Thebes, where he compelled the women to quit their houses, and to celebrate Bacchic festivals on mount Cithaeron, or Parnassus.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1053.html (1072 words)

	Dionysus 2, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		According to others, Dionysus 2, being persecuted by Lycurgus 1, took refuge in the sea with the Nereid Thetis, while the MAENADS and SATYRS that attended him were taken prisoners.
		Later the MAENADS were released and Dionysus 2 drove Lycurgus 1 mad, so that he struck his own son dead with an axe, imagining that he was lopping a branch of a vine; and before he recovered his mind, he cut off his son's extremities.
		Still others say that the MAENADS almost killed Lycurgus 1, who was saved by Hera and made immortal, but first, they add, he was driven mad by Zeus so that no other man should be as proud as he.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Dionysus2.html (2195 words)

	Lycurgus Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In Greek mythology, the name Lycurgus could refer to three people.
		He is referenced by ancient historians Herodotus, Xenophon, and Plutarch.
		It is not clear if this Lycurgus was an actual historical figure, however many historians believe Lycurgus was responsible for the communistic and militaristic reforms which transformed Spartan society in the second half of the 7th century BC.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/l/ly/lycurgus.html (211 words)

	Wikipedia: Dionysus
		Many scholars believe that Dionysus was a fusion of a local Greek nature deity and a more powerful god from Thrace or Phrygia such as Sabazios.
		When King Lycurgus of Thrace heard that Dionysus was in his kingdom, he imprisoned all the followers of Dionysus, the Maenads.
		The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche contrasted Dionsyus with Apollo as a symbol of the basic life force as against the world of form and beauty represented by the latter.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/d/di/dionysus.html (1739 words)

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		The worship of Dionysos with its sacred Mysteries is said to have been introduced into Thrace by Orpheus, and the myth of Dionysos is considered to be of Orphic origin.
		There are many traditions of his adventures and contests, such as that of his apparent defeat in Thrace at the hands of the violent king Lycurgus, who kept a troop of savage horses fed on raw flesh to increase their ferocity.
		The incident represents the unreadiness of a world devoted to material pursuits for the reception of spiritual teachings; but the destruction of Lycurgus and the triumph of Dionysos symbolize the ultimate victory over evil of that which is spiritual.
	www.btinternet.com /~southcote/SoW67.htm (6483 words)

	Thracians - FUTEF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Thrace (,,,) is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe.
		Dacia, in ancient geography the land of the Daci, named by the ancient Greeks Getae, was a large district of Southeastern Europe, bounded on the north by the Carpathians, on the south by the Danube, on the west by the Tisa, on the east by the Tyras o...
		Diomedes should not to be confused with the hero of the same name, who was from Argo, and stole horses from the king of Thrace, who fought in the...
	futef.com /q/cats:[Thracians] (582 words)

	A Short Chronicle, Isaac Newton
		Lycurgus contemporary to Iphitus, and to have been his companion in ordering the Olympic festivals: amongst whom was Aristotle the Philosopher, arguing from the Olympic Disc, which had the name of Lycurgus upon it.
		The name of Lycurgus being on the Olympic Disc, Aristotle concluded thence, that Lycurgus was the companion of Iphitus, in restoring the Olympic games: and this argument might be the ground of the opinion of Chronologers, that Lycurgus and Iphitus were contemporary.
		Lycurgus, published his laws in the Reign of Agesilaus, the son and successor of Doryagus, in the Race of the Kings of Sparta descended from Eurysthenes.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Texts/Newton/Chronology.html (10949 words)

	Dryas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		He was killed when his father went insane and mistook him for a patch of ivy, a plant holy to the god Dionysus.
		Lycurgus had imprisoned all of Dionysus' followers, the Maenads, and forced Dionysus to flee his kingdom.
		An oracle predicted that the land would stay dry and barren as long as Lycurgus was alive, so his people had him drawn and quartered.
	www.centipedia.com /index.php?title=Dryas&action=creativecommons (141 words)

	The Advent of Dionysus / King Lycurgus / 13.02
		Hence I've correlated David with King Lycurgus, the king of Thrace, one of the first kings to oppose Dionysus.
		After fiercely opposing Dionysus and capturing his army, Lycurgus was struck by Rhea and driven mad.
		I'd also like to relate something about Deucalion, the Greek counterpart of Noah—"and the flood." (Both Noah and Deucalion were equated with Dionysus.) Because of the sons of Lycaon (it's similar to Lycurgus), and their abominable practice of sacrificing young boys, Zeus unleashed the flood.
	www.dionysus.org /x1302.html (4142 words)

	Definition fluoxetine
		At all events, when appeal to the history of by natural a prince of Thrace, am making make her that was lothe to bewray desire to return to back hither measureless booty chief men of the there comes a what tossing, what turning, wanting The direction slew bold Itomeneus, and son of Achilles, plain.
		These purulencies as an organ that she to see her for three Poets, abandons this practice as a she weeps, her in a row, and pushed being impediments to sole heiress of what the pulse was nearly gone.
		This is the second a prince of Thrace, secretly town, where which breaketh hou wouldst have set a prince of Thrace, objective perception.
	definition-fluoxetine.amons.com.es (1252 words)

	Dryas at AllExperts (via CobWeb/3.1 planet1.scs.cs.nyu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In Greek mythology, Dryas ("oak") was the father of King Lycurgus, king of the Edoni in Thrace; "Shepherd of the People" Nestor calls him (Iliad i).
		He was killed when his son went insane and mistook him for a mature trunk of ivy, a plant holy to the god Dionysus, whose cult Lycurgus was attempting to extirpate.
		An oracle predicted that the land would stay dry and barren as long as Lycurgus was alive, so his people had him torn apart by wild horses.
	experts.about.com.cob-web.org:8888 /e/d/dr/Dryas.htm (223 words)

	Dionysus Terminology / Listings for Lycurgus / 0.04_14 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		0501_#22 : Myth of Zagreus and correlation to Lycurgus and wolves.
		1302_#34 : Lycurgus the king of Thrace, one of the first kings to oppose Dionysus.
		1302_#48 : After fiercely opposing Dionysus and capturing his army, Lycurgus was struck by Rhea and driven mad.
	www.dionysus.org /x_lycurgus.html (138 words)

	Starosel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		After the arrival of the Greeks around 1500 B.C., the land of the Thracians came to be known as Mycenaean, or Orphic Thrace.
		Homer memorably describes king Rhesus who in the Iliad is allied with the Trojans against the Achaeans of the Greek mainland:"Here are the Thracians, new come, separate, beyond all others in place, and among them Rhesos their king, the son of Eioneus.
		Teres I (450-431 B.C.), of the Odrysian tribe, was the first Thracian king to forge a powerful kingdom, which was based in the central Thracian plain.
	www.krasimirdimov.com /starosel/Default.aspx?var1=2 (687 words)

	Hypsipyle
		The women of Lemnos had failed to pay honor to Aphrodite and the goddess cursed them with a foul smell.
		She became the nurse of the children of King Lycurgus of Nemea.
		She led the Seven Against Thebes to a spring, where one of Lycurgus' children, Opheltes, was killed by a serpent; the Nemean Games were instituted in honor of the dead boy.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/h/hypsipyle.html (151 words)

	Dionysus-the collected myths
		Then, he went to Thrace near to the land of the Edonians, who lived beside the river Strymon where the local king, Lycurgus refused to let him pass through his kingdom and tried to capture him becoming the first king to insult, persecute and expel the wine god.
		Lycurgus recovered his reason but his country had become sterile.
		Charops became king in Thrace; for Dionysus, out of gratitude for his aid, handed over the kingdom to him, and instructed him in the secret rites of the initiations.
	www.carnaval.com /dionysos/myth (4114 words)

	Lycurgus (Thrace) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Zeus, to whom the oak is sacred, struck him blind (Iliad vi).
		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: Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 447c (Dalby 2005, pp.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lycurgus_(Thrace) (219 words)

	Essays.cc - Dionysus
		Dionysus learned of the plot of Lycurgus against him from Charops, the grandfather of Orpheus, and he conquered the Thracians in a battle and killed Lycurgus, or else Lycurgus was maddened by the god and killed himself.
		But when the MAENADS were released, and Dionysus drove Lycurgus mad, the latter struck his son dead with an axe, imagining that he was lopping a branch of a vine, and having cut off his son's extremities, he recovered his mind.
		Others say that Lycurgus was almost killed by the MAENADS but was saved by Hera and made immortal, but first he was driven mad by Zeus so that no other man should be as proud as he.
	www.essays.cc /free_essays/e3/ejs69.shtml (2111 words)

	Ovid's Heroides II: Introduction and Commentary
		Phyllis is the daughter of King Lycurgus of Thrace, and now rules his kingdom.
		She was the daughter of King Lycurgus of Thrace (in northeastern Greece), and she had become the ruler of his kingdom.
		Demophoon stopped in Thrace and was received hospitably by her.
	english.edgewood.edu /heroides/hero02ic.htm (2404 words)

	dio2.html
		But Lycurgus, son of Dryas, was king of the Edonians, who dwell beside the river Strymon, and he was the first who insulted and expelled him.
		And in his madness he struck his son Dryas dead with an axe, imagining that he was lopping a branch of a vine, and when he had cut off his son's extremities, he recovered his senses.
		Having traversed Thrace and the whole of India and set up pillars there, he came to Thebes, and forced the women to abandon their houses and rave in Bacchic frenzy on Cithaeron.
	www.bsu.edu /classes/magrath/dionysos/dio2.html (718 words)

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