person
Lycurgus
Thracian king who resisted Bacchus and was punished; the axe-bearing king of the Bacchus ode.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §14.90.6 Lycurgus
The legendary lawgiver of Sparta, framer of its austere constitution; Seneca calls him a would-be eighth to the Seven.
- Oedipus §467 Lycurgus
The axe-bearing Thracian king punished for resisting Bacchus.