• accounts he was a king of Nemea. When the army of the Seven against Thebes was passing through Nemea on its way to Thebes, Lycurgus' infant son Opheltes...
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    Nemean odes of Pindar. In Greek mythology, Nemea was ruled by king Lycurgus and queen Eurydice. Nemea was famous in Greek myth as the home of the Nemean...
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  • royalist Lycurgus (mythology), name of mythological characters named Lycurgus Lycurgus of Arcadia, king Lycurgus (of Nemea), son of Pheres Lycurgus of Thrace...
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    Opheltes (category Nemea)
    parents were Lycurgus, the priest of Zeus at Nemea, and Euridice. However Hyginus' Latin text calls Opheltes' father "Lycus", rather than Lycurgus—probably...
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  • Alexida. Eurydice, wife of King Lycurgus (of Nemea) and mother of Opheltes. Eurydice, wife of Aeneas, according to Lescheos and writer of the epic poem Cypria...
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  • Lycus (mythology) (category Sons of Aegyptus)
    Lycus, same as Lycurgus (of Nemea). Lycus, the mortal lover of Coronis, mother of Asclepius. He is otherwise commonly known as Ischys, son of Elatus. Lycus...
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  • Opheltes (mythology) (category Mythology of Dionysus)
    mythology, including: Opheltes, the infant son of Lycurgus of Nemea, killed by a serpent. Opheltes, one of the Tyrrhenian pirates who attempted to deceive...
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  • century BC) Lycurgus (of Nemea), king Lycurgus of Sparta, creator of constitution of Sparta Lycurgus of Thrace, king, opponent of Dionysus Lycurgus, a.k.a...
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  • individuals: Lycurgus, son of Aleus, and king of Tegea in Arcadia Lycurgus, a king of Nemea, and son of Pheres. Lycurgus, king of Thrace and opponent of Dionysus...
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  • Pronax (section Lycurgus)
    stopping a fight between Lycurgus and Amphiaraus, another of the Seven. If this image depicted an event during the Seven's stop at Nemea, then this would presumably...
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  • is the name of several women in Greek mythology: Amphithea, who was, according to some, the wife of Lycurgus, king of Nemea, and mother of Opheltes (later...
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  • of Corinth Lycoreia Lycorus Lyctus Lycurgeia Lycurgus Lycurgus (king of Sparta) Lycurgus of Arcadia Lycurgus of Athens Lycurgus (of Nemea) Lycurgus of...
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    Hypsipyle (category Nemea)
    119. For Lycurgus as king of Nemea, see Statius, Thebaid 5.715–716 ("Lycurgus ... the king"), 733 ("ruler of Nemea"). For Lycurgus as a priest of Zeus, see...
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    (Lycurgus as father), fr. 752h.26–28 (Lycurgus as priest of Zeus), fr. 757 (Eurydice as mother), fr. 757.41–44 (Hypsipyle as nurse). Although Lycurgus...
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    rumour of Thoas' survival reached the island, Hypsipyle was forced to flee. Apprehended by pirates, the princess had been sold to Lycurgus, king of Nemea who...
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    Spartan was worth several men of any other state." Tradition states that the semi-mythical Spartan legislator Lycurgus first founded the iconic army....
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  • action of the play begins, Thoas and his brother Euneus arrive at the home of Lycurgus in Nemea where their mother Hypsipyle, as a result of the discovery...
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  • at Olympia in honor of Zeus; the Pythian Games, which took place in Delphi and honored Apollo; the Nemean Games, occurring at Nemea and also honoring Zeus;...
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    was Agesipolis III, deposed by the Eurypontid Lycurgus in 215 BC. In order to explain the peculiarity of the Spartan two kings, the Spartans elaborated...
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    Hypsipyle (play) (category Nemea)
    sold as a slave to Lycurgus, the priest of Zeus at Nemea. Hypsipyle has come to be the nursemaid of Opheltes, the infant son of Lycurgus, and his wife Eurydice...
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  • Adrastus (redirect from Adrastus of Argos)
    Omitting any mention of the Seven's stop at Nemea, Diodorus next gives an account of the battle at Thebes. As always, all of the Seven died, except...
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  • a king of Nemea, and/or a priest of Zeus at Nemea Makedon, a king of Macedon Megareus of Onchestus, a king of Onchestus in Boeotia Megareus of Thebes...
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    Men of Eleusis The Messengers The Myrmidons The Mysians Nemea The Net-Draggers The Nurses of Dionysus Orethyia Palamedes Penelope Pentheus Perrhaibides...
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    event in Luke. Purg. XXI, 7–13. Lycurgus: Ancient king of Nemea. According to Statius's Thebaid (V.499–730), Lycurgus received Hypsipyle and her two sons...
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    Argonauts (category Deeds of Zeus)
    the way to a spring in Nemea, where she served as nurse to King Lycurgus' son Opheltes.) Her son Euneus later became king of Lemnos. In order to purify...
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    The Apotheosis of Homer is a grand 1827 painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, now exhibited at the Louvre as INV 5417...
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    The Loves of Paris and Helen is a 1788 oil-on-canvas painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jacques-Louis David, showing Helen of Troy and Paris from...
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